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hydrophobin

noun

Etymology

From hydrophobe + -in.

  1. derived from ὑδροφόβος
  2. derived from hydrophobus
  3. borrowed from hydrophobe
  4. suffixed as hydrophobin — “hydrophobe + in”

Definitions

  1. Any of a class of small, cysteine-rich proteins that are expressed only by filamentous…

    Any of a class of small, cysteine-rich proteins that are expressed only by filamentous fungi, known for their capability of forming a hydrophobic coating on the surface of an object

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hydrophobin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA