Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phasin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phasin
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of surface proteins associated with bacterial granules.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Borrowed from German Phasin.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Phasin

Inflected Forms

phasins (plural)

Questions

What does phasin mean?: Any of a family of surface proteins associated with bacterial granules.
Where does phasin come from?: It is traced to German.

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