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bactenecins

bactenecins is the plural of bactenecin.

Meaning of bactenecin

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

Questions about bactenecins

What is bactenecins the plural of?
Bactenecins is the plural of bactenecin.

Words near bactenecins in the dictionary

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

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