phasin

Any of a family of surface proteins associated with bacterial granules.

Noun

  1. Any of a family of surface proteins associated with bacterial granules.
    • 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...

    Hypernyms: lectin

Origin

Borrowed from German Phasin.

Forms

phasins