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Definition of Protamin
1. n. An amorphous nitrogenous substance found in the spermatic fluid of salmon. It is soluble in water, which an alkaline reaction, and unites with acids and metallic bases.
Definition of Protamin
1. Noun. (biochemistry) An amorphous nitrogenous substance found in the spermatic fluid of salmon. It is soluble in water, with an alkaline reaction, and unites with acids and metallic bases. ¹
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Definition of Protamin
1. a simple protein [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protamin
Literary usage of Protamin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"Schmiedeberg then suggests that in such case the protamin nucleate might be the
protector of this. This suggestion will hardly be accepted by those who ..."
2. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1900)
"In other animals, such as the carp, bull, and boar, proteid-like substances occur
with the nucleic acid, bat no protamin. The same is true for the ..."
3. A Textbook of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1906)
"In other animals, such as the bull and boar, proteid-like substances occur with
the nucleic acid, but no protamin. Our knowledge of the chemical composition ..."
4. The Physical Chemistry of the Proteins by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1918)
"Upon digestion of these precipitates with pepsin the protamin is set free * and
... The protamin which was held in the compound before digestion can now be ..."
5. The Physical Chemistry of the Proteins by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1918)
"Upon digestion of these precipitates with pepsin the protamin is set free * and
... The protamin which was held in the compound before digestion can now be ..."
6. Physiological Histology: Methods and Theory by Gustav Mann (1902)
"protamin was discovered by Miescher in the milt or spermatic fluid of the salmon.
It is now called salmin by Kossel, who reserves the term protamin as the ..."
7. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1900)
"In other animals, such as the carp, bull, and boar, proteid-like substances occur
with the nucleic acid, bat no protamin. The same is true for the ..."
8. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1898)
"There are certain important properties which are common to the protamin group,
and are of importance as showing their relationship to the more complex ..."
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