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cyanophycin, n. Biochem.|ˌsaɪənəʊˈfaɪsɪn|
[a. It. cianoficina (A. Borzi 1886, in Malpighia I. 79): cf. cyano-, phycic a., -in1.]
A polypeptide present in the form of food storage granules in most cyanobacteria.
1896Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXXVIII. 263 The granules he looks upon as crystals belonging to the regular system, and composed of a substance ‘cyanophycin’, which..he regards as related to the chromatin and pyrenin of highly specialised vegetable cells. 1965Biol. Rev. XL. 157 The characteristic storage product in blue-green algae is represented by large cyanophycin granules. 1983S. Holmes Outl. Plant Classification (1986) iv. 22 Food reserves include a special starch, cyanophycean or myxophycean starch, and a protein, cyanophycin. |