phasin

plural phasins

1. biochemistryAny of a family of surface proteins associated with bacterial granules.

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   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.

   2015 July 29, Adrian Gerber et al., “Functionalized PHB granules provide the basis for the efficient side-chain cleavage of cholesterol and analogs in recombinant Bacillus megaterium”, in Microbial Cell Factories, volume 14, →DOI