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kahalalide

kahalalide noun: any of a family of depsipeptides that show antitumour activity.

Noun

kahalalide (plural kahalalides)

  1. Any of a family of depsipeptides that show antitumour activity
    • For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of kahalalide

pluralkahalalides

Questions about kahalalide

What does kahalalide mean?
Kahalalide means any of a family of depsipeptides that show antitumour activity.
What part of speech is kahalalide?
Kahalalide is a noun.
What is the plural of kahalalide?
The plural of kahalalide is kahalalides.

Words near kahalalide in the dictionary

  1. KAH
  2. kah dai
  3. kaha
  4. kahakō
  5. kahal
  6. kahalalide
  7. kahalalides
  8. kahals
  9. Kahan
  10. Kahan summation algorithm
  11. Kahana

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