PKZILLA
Meanings
noun
- Prymnesin, a family of proteins.
- Any protein in this family.
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Etymology
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.
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