Etymology

cavin

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French cavin
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cavin · noun1

  1. French · borrowed fromcavin
  2. English todaycavin

From French cavin (same meaning), ultimately from Latin cavus.

cavin · noun2

From cav(eola) + -in. Coined in J. Vinten et al. (2005), “Identification of a major protein on the cytosolic face of caveolae”, in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, volume 1717, number 1, pages 34-40: Cav-p60, a specific and ubiquitous caveolar protein, was[…]identified as similar to a GeneBank entry annotated mouse polymerase transcript release factor (PTRF)[…]The results show that in a large number of cell types, PTRF is essentially located to caveolae, and that each caveola harbors many copies of the protein. Consequently, we suggest the name Cavin [sic – not capitalised elsewhere in the article] for this protein. .

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