phasin
See also: Phasin
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Phasin.
Noun
phasin (plural phasins)
- (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: :
- 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.