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octapeptides

octapeptides is the plural of octapeptide.

Meaning of octapeptide

Noun

octapeptide (plural octapeptides)

  1. An oligopeptide having eight amino acids.
    • a, COS-7 cells were transfected with expression plasmids directing the expression of each of the indicated PrP deletion mutants (green, octapeptide repeats; red, globular domain; SS, signal sequence).2009 February 26, Juha Laurén et al., “Cellular prion protein mediates impairment of synaptic plasticity by amyloid-β oligomers”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7233, →DOI, pages 1128–1132

Questions about octapeptides

What is octapeptides the plural of?
Octapeptides is the plural of octapeptide.

Words near octapeptides in the dictionary

  1. octaoxo
  2. octaoxygen
  3. octapalladium
  4. octapartite
  5. octapeptide
  6. octapeptides
  7. octaphosphorus
  8. octapine
  9. octapla
  10. octaples
  11. octaplex

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