titin

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A protein important in the contraction of striated muscle tissues. uncountable
    — In order to measure the pattern of force-dependent stretching of TR, we designed a DNA construct encoding for I27 2 -T R -I27 2 [TR flanked by two molecules of the I27 (27th immunoglobular domain of human cardiac titin), which has well-characterized mechanical properties.]

词源

From titan + -in. From being a titanic (titan) protein (-in), a very large protein, the largest known prior to the discovery of PKZILLA.
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