complexin

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Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *pel-
Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der.
Proto-Italic *plektōder.
Latin plectō
Latin complector
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin complexuslbor.
French complexebor.
English complex
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English complexin

    From complex + -in.

    Noun

    complexin (plural complexins)

    1. A type of protein found in nerve tissue.
      • 2009 January 23, Anton Maximov et al., “Complexin Controls the Force Transfer from SNARE Complexes to Membranes in Fusion”, in Science‎[1], volume 323, number 5913, →DOI:
        We next examined which complexin sequences mediate spontaneous and evoked fusion.

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