lipobox

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noun

A peptide motif that is important to the modification of bacterial lipoproteins

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Meanings

nounlipobox (plural lipoboxes)

plural lipoboxes

  1. A peptide motif that is important to the modification of bacterial lipoproteins

    Understanding the role of the HP0377 lipobox requires more investigation, as has been done for some Legionella lipoproteins [ 61 ].

    2015 July 4, Paula Roszczenko et al., “Helicobacter pylori HP0377, a member of the Dsb family, is an untypical multifunctional CcmG that cooperates with dimeric thioldisulfide oxidase HP0231”, in BMC Microbiology, volume 15, →DOI

Origin

From lipo- + box.

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