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Subunit vs Treadmilling - What's the difference?

subunit | treadmilling |

As nouns the difference between subunit and treadmilling

is that subunit is any subdivision of a larger unit while treadmilling is the apparent locomotion of certain cellular filaments by adding protein subunits at one end, and removing them at the other.

subunit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any subdivision of a larger unit
  • (biochemistry) A protein subunit

    • treadmilling

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia treadmilling) (-)
  • (biology) The apparent locomotion of certain cellular filaments by adding protein subunits at one end, and removing them at the other