Definition of Pentapeptide

1. Noun. (biochemistry) An oligopeptide formed from five amino acids ¹

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Definition of Pentapeptide

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Pentapeptide

1. A compound containing five amino acid residues linked via peptide bonds. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentapeptide

pentanes
pentangle
pentangles
pentangular
pentanitride
pentanitrides
pentanoic
pentanoic acid
pentanol
pentanols
pentanones
pentanuclear
pentaoxide
pentaoxides
pentaoxolane
pentapeptide (current term)
pentapeptides
pentapetalous
pentaphene
pentaphenes
pentaphenyl
pentaphosphaferrocene
pentaphosphate
pentaphosphide
pentaphosphides
pentaphosphorylated
pentaphyllous
pentapiperide fumarate
pentapiperium methylsulfate
pentaploid

Literary usage of Pentapeptide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of Physiological Chemistry in Thirty Lectures by Emil Abderhalden (1908)
"... peptides acids pep tides acids peptides Amino acids i Amino acids ' \ I > Decapeptides Amino acids pentapeptide Tetrapeptide. acid j \ Amino Tripeptide. ..."

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