sirupartigen
Sirupartigen is a fictional gene and its protein product described within speculative biology and certain science fiction narratives as a regulator of carbohydrate metabolism in an imagined organism. The term is used in virtual or hypothetical models rather than in real-world genomics or biochemistry.
The name combines sirup, referring to syrup-like metabolites, with the -gen suffix commonly used for genes in
Structural and cellular localization descriptions are not consistent across sources. Some accounts depict the Sirupartigen protein
Occurrence and usage are confined to fictional plant systems and thought experiments in metabolic engineering or
See also: metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, hypothetical genes, fictional biochemistry.