English Explanatory Dictionary

thiopeptide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a family of antibiotics composed of a ring structure containing highly modified amino acids and a linear peptide containing dehydroalanines extending from the ring at a pyridyl group

Word forms

thiopeptide thiopeptides

Etymology

From thio- + peptide.

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