About The Medical Condition Porins

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Porins

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Porins Medical Condition

What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Porins?

Protein molecules situated in the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria that, in dimeric or trimeric form, constitute a water-filled transmembrane channel allowing passage of ions and other small molecules. Porins are also found in bacterial cell walls, and in plant, fungal, mammalian and other vertebrate cell and mitochondrial membranes.

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