motor protein

English

Noun

motor protein (countable and uncountable, plural motor proteins)

  1. (biochemistry) 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.
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