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noun
Prymnesin, a family of proteins.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any protein in this family.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
From Initialism of poly- + ketide + -zilla. From being a very large polyketide synthase enzyme. At the time of discovery, PKZILLA-1, the first PKZILLA discovered, discovered in Prymnesium parvum, became the largest protein known, greatly exceeding the size of the prior largest, titin.
