chitoporin

English

Etymology

From chito- +‎ porin.

Noun

chitoporin (plural chitoporins)

1. (biochemistry) A porin associated with bacterial cell walls
   • 2016 February 13, “Probing the Catalytic Mechanism of Vibrio harveyi GH20 ?-N -Acetylglucosaminidase by Chemical Rescue”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase, a copper-dependent enzyme, attacks recalcitrant chitin polysaccharides [4 ,5 ], while endochitinases hydrolyse long chitin chains to chitin oligosaccharides, which are then transported through the bacterial cell wall by chitoporin or ChiP.

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