Meanings
nounperlucin (countable and uncountable, plural perlucins)
plural perlucins
- countableuncountablebiochemistryA matrix protein, found in nacre, that nucleates growth of calcium carbonate crystals
A 48kDa protein was extracted from the pearl of H.cumingii, providing evidence of vaterite formation and the matrix protein perlucin is reported to be involved in H.cumingii nacre formation.
2015 August 12, “A Novel Matrix Protein Hic31 from the Prismatic Layer of Hyriopsis Cumingii Displays a Collagen-Like Structure”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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