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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a microneme

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Examples

  • Sets of kinases and proteases were found that may be secreted or organellar (e.g. rhoptry, micronemal), although their specific annotation is complicated by their membership in large gene families.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • This, however, does not explain the ability of micronemal but not rhoptry proteins to be released by extracellular parasites.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009

  • This result complements a recent report showing that two of the MJ proteins, micronemal AMA1 and rhoptry neck protein RON2, form an extremely tight interaction if present in the same compartment but pass through the secretory pathway at different times

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009

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