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murabutide

Today it means: A synthetic immunomodulator derived from muramyl dipeptide, the smallest bioactive unit of bacterial peptidoglycan. Full definition →

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From mura(myl) + but- + -tide (“peptide, glycopeptide”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.