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Actin vs Ankyrin - What's the difference?

actin | ankyrin |

As nouns the difference between actin and ankyrin

is that actin is (protein|uncountable) a globular structural protein that polymerizes in a helical fashion to form an actin filament (or microfilament) while ankyrin is (biology) any of a family of adaptor proteins that mediate the attachment of integral membrane proteins to the spectrin-actin based membrane skeleton.

actin

English

Noun

  • (protein, uncountable) A globular structural protein that polymerizes in a helical fashion to form an actin filament (or microfilament).
  • (protein, countable) One of the six isoforms of actin.

    • Derived terms

    * actomyosin * conductin * isoactin

    See also

    * actinic * myosin

    Anagrams

    * *

    ankyrin

    English

    (wikipedia ankyrin)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) Any of a family of adaptor proteins that mediate the attachment of integral membrane proteins to the spectrin-actin based membrane skeleton.