cyanophycinn.
/ˌsʌɪənəʊˈfʌɪsɪn/ Biochemistry.
A polypeptide present in the form of food storage granules in most cyanobacteria.
ΚΠ
1896 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 38 263 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.
1965 Biol. Rev. 40 157 The characteristic storage product in blue-green algae is represented by large cyanophycin granules.
1983 S. Holmes Outl. Plant Classif. iv. 22 Food reserves include a special starch, cyanophycean or myxophycean starch, and a protein, cyanophycin.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
<
n.1896- sidewalk skate
- sidewalk song
- sidewalk superintendent
- sidewalk surfer
- sidewalk surfing
- sidewalk tree
- sidewalked
- sidewalks
- sidewall
- sidewall tyre
- sidewalls
- sideward
- sidewards
- sidewaver
- sideway
- sideways
- sideways promotion
- sideways-looking
- sideways-on
- sidewayslooking
- silver-soldering
- silver-spangled
- silver-spat
- silver-spoonism
- silver-spot