PKZILLA

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Etymology

From Initialism of poly- +‎ ketide +‎ -zilla. From being a very large polyketide synthase enzyme. At the time of discovery, PKZILLA-1, the first PKZILLA discovered, discovered in Prymnesium parvum, became the largest protein known, greatly exceeding the size of the prior largest, titin.

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PKZILLA (countable and uncountable, plural PKZILLAs)

  1. Prymnesin, a family of proteins.
  2. Any protein in this family.

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