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bactenecin

bactenecin noun: any of a family of antimicrobial cyclic peptides found in the granules of bovine neutrophils.

Noun

bactenecin (plural bactenecins)

  1. Any of a family of antimicrobial cyclic peptides found in the granules of bovine neutrophils
    • Secondly, AMPs having one disulfide bond which pack into a loop structure having a tail e.g., bactenecins and esculentins.2015 April 2, Babatunji Emmanuel Oyinloye et al., “Reactive Oxygen Species, Apoptosis, Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Inflammatory Diseases”, in Pharmaceuticals, volume 8, →DOI

Forms of bactenecin

pluralbactenecins

Questions about bactenecin

What does bactenecin mean?
Bactenecin means any of a family of antimicrobial cyclic peptides found in the granules of bovine neutrophils.
What part of speech is bactenecin?
Bactenecin is a noun.
What is the plural of bactenecin?
The plural of bactenecin is bactenecins.

Words near bactenecin in the dictionary

  1. bacsilog
  2. Bacsonian
  3. bact
  4. bact.
  5. BACTA
  6. bactenecin
  7. bactenecins
  8. bacter-
  9. bacteraemia
  10. bacteraemias
  11. bacteraemic

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