motor protein (English, noun)
expansion: motor protein (countable and uncountable, plural motor proteins)
Senses:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins that are able to move on a suitable substrate, being powered by the hydrolysis of ATP, and are involved in the conversion of chemical energy into mechanical work.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: motor proteins
tags: plural