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telopeptide

noun

Etymology

From telo- + peptide.

  1. derived from πεπτόν
  2. borrowed from Pepton
  3. borrowed from Peptid
  4. prefixed as telopeptide — “telo + peptide”

Definitions

  1. an amino acid sequence, (normally at one or more ends), that have a function in building…

    an amino acid sequence, (normally at one or more ends), that have a function in building or conforming a protein and are proteolytically removed at maturity

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for telopeptide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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