Meanings
nounpolypeptone (plural polypeptones)
plural polypeptones
- A polymeric peptone
Our current hypothesis is that polypeptone within the media contains some factor(s) that facilitates uracil consumption, but this remains to be proved.
2015 November 5, “Cell Lysis in S . pombe ura4 Mutants Is Suppressed by Loss of Functional Pub1, Which Regulates the Uracil Transporter Fur4”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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