PKZILLA
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]PKZILLA (countable and uncountable, plural PKZILLAs)
Hypernyms
[edit]- polyketide synthase
- prymnesin precursor