polypeptide
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- noun
- /ˌpɑːliˈpɛptaɪd/
- Specialized
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polipéptido
- The polypeptide had a molecular mass of 47 kDa, identical to that of TF 4.
- pancreatic polypeptide
- molecular-weight polypeptides
And that these polypeptide substrates have complex native folds.
- And that these polypeptide substrates have complex native folds.
- That mRNA gets translated by a ribosome into a polypeptide chain or a protein.
- And this means that there's a variety of different chemistries that can be put on top of this basic polypeptide chain.
- This is the proteiny polypeptide cream.
Examples
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According to his computer program, his E. coli polypeptide should have worked, but it didn't.
Fiction book (2000) -
Protein structures turned out to be too complicated for model building from the known structures of polypeptide components.
Academic text (1995) -
Well, it's a polypeptide, this unit right in here.
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As it stands, no polypeptide is made beyond that.
Fiction book (2000) -
That mRNA gets translated by a ribosome into a polypeptide chain or a protein.
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Actually, it's quite a feat for either male or female to predict how a stretch of polypeptide will contort, curl, and fold.
Fiction book (2000) -
The basis for this "theorem" is the degeneracy of the genetic code: a given polypeptide sequence can be encoded by different DNA sequences.
Academic text (1996) -
In this six-part series, we will evaluate one claim: that many random polypeptide sequences fold into a single stable conformation.
Blog text (13) -
She's very good with shapes, how the pump orifice is configured, how the polypeptide must fold in order to match, and so on.
Fiction book (2000) -
The synthesis of polypeptide chains is crucial for the development of new medications.
Synonyms
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A short chain of amino acids that forms part of proteins
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Polypeptide breaks into poly- meaning 'many' (the same poly- in polygon) and peptide, from a Greek word meaning 'to digest' that came to mean small pieces of protein; so a polypeptide is literally a chain of 'many' protein pieces, which explains why it is a long molecule made of many amino acids.