actin

About 1.82 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A globular structural protein that polymerizes in a helical fashion to form an actin filament (or microfilament).
2. noun One of the six isoforms of actin.

Similar words

myosin tropomyosin polymerized polymerizes microfilament f-actin g-actin actb alpha-actin actinin

Often followed by

filaments and filament cytoskeleton in is polymerization gene binding

Word family

actins