Esculentin

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A particular steroid glycoside. countable, uncountable

    "Secondly, AMPs having one disulfide bond which pack into a loop structure having a tail e.g., bactenecins and esculentins."

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"Secondly, AMPs having one disulfide bond which pack into a loop structure having a tail e.g., bactenecins and esculentins."

Etymology

From esculent + -in.

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