Meanings
- pluralplural of conopeptide
Based on the content of disulfide bonds, peptides from Conus venom can be classified as conopeptides, if they are poor in disulfide bonds, or as conotoxins, if they are rich in disulfide bonds (where the Cys residues appear at high frequency, with many instances of multiple and adjacent pairs) [4 ].
2016 February 10, “In Silico Identification of Protein Disulfide Isomerase Gene Families in the De Novo Assembled Transcriptomes of Four Different Species of the Genus Conus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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