esculentin

English

Etymology

esculent +‎ -in

Noun

esculentin (countable and uncountable, plural esculentins)

  1. A particular steroid glycoside.
    • 2015 April 2, Babatunji Emmanuel Oyinloye et al., “Reactive Oxygen Species, Apoptosis, Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Inflammatory Diseases”, in Pharmaceuticals‎, volume 8, DOI:10.3390/ph8020151:
      Secondly, AMPs having one disulfide bond which pack into a loop structure having a tail e.g., bactenecins and esculentins.

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