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carrier protein
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carrier protein [′kar·ē·ər ‚prō‚tēn]
(cell and molecular biology)
A membrane protein that transports a specific solute across the cell membrane by binding to the solute on one side of the membrane and then releasing it on the other.


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While experimenting in their laboratory, the research team combined these carrier proteins with therapeutic DNA, and attached them to cell membrane receptors and the nuclear import machinery of target cells.
Bovine serum that contains macromolecular proteins, low molecular weight nutrients, antioxidants and carrier proteins for water-insoluble components is also known to contain antiapoptotic factors.
2), (3) Heparin is said to inhibit acid phosphatase activity (4) and to affect the binding of triiodothyronine and thyroxine to their carrier proteins, thus producing falsely higher concentrations of these hormones.
 
 
 
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