depsipeptide

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noun

any of a class of polymeric compounds having both peptide and ester linkages, often alternating.

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Meanings

noundepsipeptide (plural depsipeptides)

plural depsipeptides

  1. chemistryany of a class of polymeric compounds having both peptide and ester linkages, often alternating.

    For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.

    2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

By surface analysis, depsi- + peptide.

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