Definition of Protamines

1. Noun. (plural of protamine) ¹

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Definition of Protamines

1. protamine [n] - See also: protamine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Protamines

prosy
prosyllogism
prosyllogisms
prosyllogistic
protactic
protactinium
protactiniums
protagon
protagonism
protagonist
protagonistic
protagonists
protagons
protamines (current term)
protamins
protandry
protanomaly
protanope
protanopia
protanopias
protanopic
protases
protasis
protasite
protaspid
protaspis

Literary usage of Protamines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1917)
"protamines. The first work upon this group of proteins was carried out by ... He termed the whole group protamines, the individual members being called ..."

2. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Biology by Elmer Verner McCollum (1920)
"The protamines. — These are the simplest of the proteins and are strongly basic ... They, like the protamines, exist in salt-like union with nucleic acid. ..."

3. Text-book of Physiological Chemistry in Thirty Lectures by Emil Abderhalden (1908)
"Kossel and his students have also found protamines in the spermatozoa of other fishes. ... Arginine is the main cleavage-product of the protamines. ..."

4. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"THE INDIVIDUAL GROUPS OF PROTEINS. protamines. The protamines occur in ripe fish sperm in which they are present as salts of nucleic acid. ..."

5. Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics by Herbert Swift Carter, Paul Edward Howe, Howard Harris Mason (1917)
"In short, histones are basic proteins "which stand between protamines and true ... (g) protamines.—Simpler polypeptides than the proteins included in the ..."

6. Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics by Herbert Swift Carter, Paul Edward Howe, Howard Harris Mason (1917)
"In short, histones are basic proteins which stand between protamines and true ... (g) protamines.—Simpler polypeptides than the proteins included in the ..."

7. Chemistry of the Albumens: Ten Lectures Delivered in the Michaelmas Term by Samuel Barnett Schryver, University of London (1906)
"... LECTURE IV THE protamines AND HISTONES NUCLEIC ACID HAVING considered the methods by which ordinary ..."

8. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"The question has been raised whether the protamines are true ... As all these bases are not identical, KOSSEL uses the name protamines to designate the ..."

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