protofilament

English

Etymology

From proto- +‎ filament.

Noun

protofilament (plural protofilaments)

1. A filament of polymerized tubulin in a cell, which becomes part of a microtubule
   • 2008 January 22, Mitsusada Iwasa Toshiro Oda, Akihiro Narita da, “The nature of the globular- to fibrous-actin transition”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, →DOI:

     The MreB crystal contained a straight, single-stranded protofilament […] .