"protofilament" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2008 January 22, Mitsusada Iwasa Toshiro Oda, Akihiro Narita da, “The nature of the globular- to fibrous-actin transition”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, →DOI",
          "text": "The MreB crystal contained a straight, single-stranded protofilament[…].",
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        "A filament of polymerized tubulin in a cell, which becomes part of a microtubule"
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