What does "thiopeptide" mean?

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

Thiopeptide

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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

Etymology

From thio- + peptide.

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amino acid

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