Medical Definition of Ductin
1.
Name for the 16 kD transmembrane subunit of the V-type ATPase, reflecting a controversial) view that it may be a multifunctional transmembrane pore protein, also involved (for example) in gap junction formation.
See: connexin.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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