PEPTIDE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

The team's interest in these membranes hinged on possible biomedical uses in which the peptide sequence forming the nanofibers would have a chosen biological activity.

The cells inside the capsule secrete therapeutic molecules (proteins, peptides), and these agents exit the capsule by diffusion across the capsule wall.

Plaques linked to beta amyloid peptide inflame brain tissue, interfere with healthy neuron transmission, and are indicated in nerve degeneration.

Most basically, toxins can be proteins, peptides (short chains of amino acids), or other molecules that attack cellular functions in another organism.

For medicinal chemists, making tweaks to peptide structures is key to developing new drug candidates.

There is evidence that forming short peptides without enzymes is relatively easy.

That allows cells and other molecules to recognize and interact with the peptides on the surface of the material.

Much more important, the rock turned out to be rich in amino acids, which serve as building blocks of proteins and peptides.

One of the common reactions that occur during replication is formation of new peptide bonds, which form the backbone of proteins.

An international research team has now identified a signal peptide expressed at the rice spikelet (flower) that is required for awn elongation of rice.

An international team of researchers developed a method that identifies up to twice as many proteins and peptides in mass spectrometry data than conventional approaches.

The binding media could be ascertained due to the fact that the peptide mass fingerprint of the animal glue proteins could be identified with certainty.

With this in mind we have carefully reviewed in vitro and in vivo and clinical studies of fermented milk containing antihypertensive peptides.

Using retinoids and serums with peptides are like sending postmen to your skin to penetrate deeper layers.

In laboratory experiments these peptides caused the self-destruction of bone cancer (osteosarcoma) cells.

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