prestin
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined in 2000 from the musical term presto (meaning fast) because of the speed of the protein.[1]
Noun
[edit]prestin (plural prestins)
- (biochemistry) A protein in the hairs of the inner ear
References
[edit]- ^ Zheng J, Shen W, He DZ, Long KB, Madison LD, Dallos P (2000 June) “Prestin is the motor protein of cochlear outer hair cells”, in Nature, volume 405, number 6783, →Bibcode, , [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10821263 ���PMID], pages 149–55
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[edit]Verb
[edit]prestin
- inflection of prestar: