myostatin

Noun

Meaning

myostatin (countable and uncountable, plural myostatins)

(biochemistry) A protein that acts as an inhibitor to the growth of muscle tissue.

Examples

"By tweaking the dormant state of the molecule, we can get myostatin to signal without the need for cutting, basically picking the lock without a key. Source: Internet

This particular type of growth is seen early in the fetus of a pregnant dam, which results in a calf that is born with two times the number of muscle fibers at birth than a calf with no myostatin gene mutation. Source: Internet

Breed characteristics The Belgian Blue has a natural mutation in the myostatin gene which codes for the protein, myostatin ("myo" meaning muscle and "statin" meaning stop). Source: Internet

These cattle have a muscle yield of about 20% more on average than cattle without the genetic myostatin mutation. Source: Internet

In the end, of 65 embryos they edited, 27 puppies were born, but only two, a female and a male, had disruptions in both copies of the myostatin gene. Source: Internet

Their objective was to damage, or knock out, both copies of the myostatin gene so that the beagles’ bodies would not produce any of the muscle-inhibiting protein that the gene manufactures. Source: Internet

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