polythreonine

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Etymology

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poly- +‎ threonine

Noun

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polythreonine (plural polythreonines)

  1. (biochemistry) A polyaminoacid composed of threonine subunits
    • 2015 August 28, “pH-Driven Polymorphism of Insulin Amyloid-Like Fibrils”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Experiments in vitro revealed even more amyloid-forming proteins and peptides, including proteins with no link to in vivo amyloids, such as polyaminoacids (e.g., polylysine, polythreonine and polyglutamic acid) [3 ], and short oligopeptides [4 –6 ].