Pseudopeptide

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An amide of an amino acid that does not occur in natural peptides or proteins, especially one introduced into a polypeptide chain

    "An alternative route for the preparation of monomer 5, in which the pseudopeptide intermediate is obtained by reductive N-alkylation, was outlined previously [13 ]."

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"An alternative route for the preparation of monomer 5, in which the pseudopeptide intermediate is obtained by reductive N-alkylation, was outlined previously [13 ]."

Etymology

From pseudo- + peptide.

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amino acid

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