kahalalide

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noun

Any of a family of depsipeptides that show antitumour activity

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Meanings

nounkahalalide (plural kahalalides)

plural kahalalides

  1. Any of a family of depsipeptides that show antitumour activity

    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
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