phasin

See also: Phasin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Phasin.

Noun

phasin (plural phasins)

  1. (biochemistry) Any of a family of surface proteins associated with bacterial granules.
    Hypernym: lectin
    • 2015 July 29, Adrian Gerber et al., “Functionalized PHB granules provide the basis for the efficient side-chain cleavage of cholesterol and analogs in recombinant Bacillus megaterium”, in Microbial Cell Factories‎, volume 14, DOI:10.1186/s12934-015-0300-y:
      We repeated the localization experiment overexpressing B. megaterium ’s chromosomally encoded phasin phaP, a natural main constituent of the PHB granules’ monolayer responsible for size regulation, to assess whether the aggregation of CYP11A1eGFP is an artificial effect due to the protein’s heterologous nature.
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