cortexillin

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cortexillin (countable and uncountable, plural cortexillins)

  1. (biochemistry) A coiled-coil protein found in Dictyostelium cells
    • 2015, Jae-Byum Chang, Yong Ho Kim, Evan Thompson, Young Hyun No, Nam Hyeong Kim, Jose Arrieta, Vitor R. Manfrinato, Amy E. Keating, Karl K. Berggren, “Single-molecule study on the orientation of coiled-coil proteins attached to gold nanostructures”, in arXiv‎[1]:
      Here, we examined the arrangement and orientation of two rod-like coiled-coil proteins, cortexillin and tropomyosin, around patterned gold nanostructures.
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