calflagin

calflagin

English

Etymology

From calcium, flagellar, -in.

Noun

calflagin (plural calflagins)

1. A flagellar calcium-binding protein.
   • 2015 July 29, “The Flagellar Arginine Kinase in Trypanosoma brucei Is Important for Infection in Tsetse Flies”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0133676:

     Analysis of the amino-terminal composition of available AK3 sequences revealed striking common features (Fig 2): the occurrence of a glycine in position 2 and the presence of 5 lysine residues, exactly as in FCaBP and in all 3 calflagins.