Polyprotein

Polyprotein

A primary product of protein synthesis, a single polypeptide chain that will eventually be cleaved into several separately functional proteins; e.g. the precursor produced by retroviruses that gives rise to several proteins, among them a coat protein, a polymerase and an endopeptidase.

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