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esculentin

esculentin noun: a particular steroid glycoside.

Noun

esculentin (countable and uncountable, plural esculentins)

  1. A particular steroid glycoside.
    • 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 esculentin

pluralesculentins

Origin of esculentin

From esculent + -in.

Questions about esculentin

What does esculentin mean?
Esculentin means a particular steroid glycoside.
What part of speech is esculentin?
Esculentin is a noun.
What is the plural of esculentin?
The plural of esculentin is esculentins.

Words near esculentin in the dictionary

  1. Esculapians
  2. Esculapius
  3. esculent
  4. esculent swallow
  5. esculent swallows
  6. esculentin
  7. esculentins
  8. esculentoside
  9. esculentosides
  10. esculents
  11. esculetin

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