protofilament
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]protofilament (plural protofilaments)
- A filament of polymerized tubulin in a cell, which becomes part of a microtubule
- 2008 January 22, Mitsusada Iwasa Toshiro Oda, Akihiro Narita da, “The nature of the globular- to fibrous-actin transition”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, :
- The MreB crystal contained a straight, single-stranded protofilament […] .