Cavin

Quick meaning: Cavin is a noun meaning (military) A hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.

Meaning

(military) A hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.

More Meanings

1. (biochemistry) A type of protein that is involved in forming the caveola of many vertebrate cells.

Example Sentences

These posts are sometimes covered by a rideau, or rising ground, or else by a cavin, or deep valley, which saves the trouble of fortifying them with parapets, fascines, gabions, barrels, or bags of earth.

A cavin near a place besieged is of great advantage to the besiegers; as by help hereof they can open trenches, make places of arms, keep guards of horse, and the like, without being exposed to the enemy's shot.

The cavin family consists of four proteins now termed cavins 1e4 and encoded by the PTRF, SDPR, SRBC, and MURC genes, respectively. Interestingly, none of the early studies about each cavin charcterized it as a caveolar protein.

The observation that lipid rafts and caveolae were highly enriched in PS in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the membrane (Pike et al. 2002) nicely dovetails with recent findings that all cavin proteins that are required for caveola biogenesis bind PS.

Word Forms

• cavins

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cavum, cunette, cave, crotchet, squeeze, cove.

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