esculentin

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

esculent +‎ -in

Noun[edit]

esculentin (countable and uncountable, plural esculentins)

  1. A particular steroid glycoside.
    • 2015 April 2, Babatunji Emmanuel Oyinloye et al., “Reactive Oxygen Species, Apoptosis, Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Inflammatory Diseases”, in Pharmaceuticals[1], volume 8, →DOI:
      Secondly, AMPs having one disulfide bond which pack into a loop structure having a tail e.g., bactenecins and esculentins.

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