depsipeptide

English

Noun

depsipeptide (plural depsipeptides)

  1. (organic chemistry) any of a class of polymeric compounds having both peptide and ester linkages, often alternating.
    • 2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.

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