permease

[ pur-mee-eys, -eyz ]

nounBiochemistry.
  1. any of the proteins that mediate the transport of various molecules across biological membranes.

Origin of permease

1
<French perméase (1956), equivalent to permé(able) permeable + -ase-ase

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