megasynthase
English
Etymology
Noun
megasynthase (plural megasynthases)
- (biochemistry) A large, complex synthase (that produces a specific natural product as if on an assembly line)
- 2015 June 27, Tian Tian, Howard M. Salis, “A predictive biophysical model of translational coupling to coordinate and control protein expression in bacterial operons”, in Nucleic Acids Research[1], volume 43, :
- A long, multi-domain olefin megasynthase was translationally coupled to a reporter protein or antibiotic resistance marker as a way to monitor and improve its translation elongation via synonymous codon mutations ( 34 ).