Meanings
nounleishporin (plural leishporins)
plural leishporins
- biochemistryA porin isolated from species of Leishmania
Based on our findings that Leishmania have a pore-forming cytolysin that we call leishporin, we have been proposing that amastigotes egress from the macrophages is mediated by pore formation on the parasitophorous vacuole and the plasma membrane.
2015 October 30, “Distinct Macrophage Fates after in vitro Infection with Different Species of Leishmania : Induction of Apoptosis by Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis, but Not by Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin
Blend of taxonomic name Leishmania + porin.
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