talin

T1A1L1I1N1

noun

Any of a group of cytoskeletal proteins

OriginLatin tālus →
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Meanings

nountalin (plural talins)

plural talins

  1. biochemistryAny of a group of cytoskeletal proteins

    Talin showed two isoforms in rohu, where as talin-1 and talin-2 in model vertebrates produces two talins through alternative mRNA splicing [75 ].

    2015 July 6, “Construction, De-Novo Assembly and Analysis of Transcriptome for Identification of Reproduction-Related Genes and Pathways from Rohu, Labeo rohita (Hamilton)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

  1. Latintālus“ankle”
  2. Englishtalin

From Latin tālus (“ankle”) + -in.

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APA

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Chicago

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