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orbatides

orbatides is the plural of orbatide.

Meaning of orbatide

Noun

orbatide (plural orbatides)

  1. A group of bioactive cyclic ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides of natural plant sources
    • The first macrocyclic orbitide, cyclolinopeptide A, was isolated in 1959 from flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum) oil2017, Jonathan R. Chekan, Paola Estrada, Patrick S. Covello, and Satish K. Nair, Characterization of the macrocyclase involved in the biosynthesis of RiPP cyclic peptides in plants, PNAS, page 6551

Questions about orbatides

What is orbatides the plural of?
Orbatides is the plural of orbatide.

Words near orbatides in the dictionary

  1. Orbanization
  2. Orbanomics
  3. ORBAT
  4. orbate
  5. orbatide
  6. orbatides
  7. orbation
  8. Orbaugh
  9. orbe
  10. orbed
  11. Orbegoso

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