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proteotypic

proteotypic adjective: describing a peptide sequence that is found in only a single known protein and therefore serves to identify that protein.

Adjective

proteotypic (not comparable)

  1. Describing a peptide sequence that is found in only a single known protein and therefore serves to identify that protein.

Origin of proteotypic

From proteo- + typic.

Questions about proteotypic

What does proteotypic mean?
Proteotypic means describing a peptide sequence that is found in only a single known protein and therefore serves to identify that protein.
What part of speech is proteotypic?
Proteotypic is an adjective.

Words near proteotypic in the dictionary

  1. proteotoxic
  2. proteotoxicities
  3. proteotoxicity
  4. proteotoxin
  5. proteotoxins
  6. proteotypic
  7. proteovesicle
  8. proteovesicles
  9. proter
  10. proterandric
  11. proterandrous

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