bactenecin

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bactenecin (plural bactenecins)

  1. (biochemistry) Any of a family of antimicrobial cyclic peptides found in the granules of bovine neutrophils
    • 2015 April 2, Babatunji Emmanuel Oyinloye et al., “Reactive Oxygen Species, Apoptosis, Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Inflammatory Diseases”, in Pharmaceuticals‎[1], volume 8, →DOI:
      Secondly, AMPs having one disulfide bond which pack into a loop structure having a tail e.g., bactenecins and esculentins.
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