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subunit

British  
/ sʌbˈjunɪt /

noun

  1. a distinct part or component of something larger

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Rusich is a subunit of the Wagner group.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2025

This subunit could potentially be a target to make the entire family of transporters dysfunctional.

From Science Daily May 3, 2024

"The synthesis process is undermined and fewer proteins of the subunit ND5, which is of central relevance to complex I, are formed because the whole process commences with the respiratory chain," added Friedland.

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2024

When the new actin subunit arrives, its incorporation onto the filament destabilizes the formin arrangement and requires the stable half-ring to step onto the new subunit and become loose, while the other half-ring becomes stable.

From Science Daily Apr. 16, 2024

Samples were screened for corallicolid infection using polymerase chain reaction -- a laboratory nucleic acid amplification technique -- and sequencing of nuclear small subunit rRNA.

From Science Daily Apr. 11, 2024

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