keratein

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The easily digested reduction product of keratin, in which the disulfide links are reduced to SH groups, the individual peptide chains having been separated.

Word forms

keratein kerateins

Etymology

From kerat- + -ein.

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