bactenecin

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noun

Any of a family of antimicrobial cyclic peptides found in the granules of bovine neutrophils

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Meanings

nounbactenecin (plural bactenecins)

plural bactenecins

  1. biochemistryAny of a family of antimicrobial cyclic peptides found in the granules of bovine neutrophils

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

    2015 April 2, Babatunji Emmanuel Oyinloye et al., “Reactive Oxygen Species, Apoptosis, Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Inflammatory Diseases”, in Pharmaceuticals, volume 8, →DOI
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