Meanings
nounpseudopeptide (plural pseudopeptides)
plural pseudopeptides
- chemistryAn amide of an amino acid that does not occur in natural peptides or proteins, especially one introduced into a polypeptide chain
An alternative route for the preparation of monomer 5, in which the pseudopeptide intermediate is obtained by reductive N-alkylation, was outlined previously [13 ].
2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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