peptide
See also: Peptide
English
Etymology
From German Peptid, from Ancient Greek πεπτός (peptós, “digested”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛptaɪd/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
peptide (plural peptides)
- (organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds consisting of various numbers of amino acids in which the amine of one is reacted with the carboxylic acid of the next to form an amide bond.
- 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 1, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
- When it’s digested, its long amino-acid chains are first broken down into smaller fragments, or peptides. It turns out that many hormones and drugs are also peptides, and a number of casein peptides do affect the body in hormone-like ways.
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- (chemistry) The peptide bond itself.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:peptide
Derived terms
- antipeptide
- atrial natriuretic peptide
- beta-peptide
- biopeptide
- cyclopeptide
- decapeptide
- depsipeptide
- dipeptide
- dodecapeptide
- eicosapeptide
- eupeptide
- glycopeptide
- heptapeptide
- hexadecapeptide
- homopeptide
- iminopeptide
- immunopeptide
- interpeptide
- intrapeptide
- isopeptide
- lanthipeptide
- lasso peptide
- lipopeptide
- monopeptide
- mucopeptide
- neuropeptide
- nonapeptide
- nonglycopeptide
- nonpeptide
- octadecapeptide
- octapeptide
- oligopeptide
- pentapeptide
- peptide bond
- peptide chain
- peptide nucleic acid
- peptidergic
- phosphopeptide
- polypeptide
- pro-peptide
- pseudopeptide
- radiopeptide
- sactipeptide
- telopeptide
- tetracopeptide
- tetrapeptide
- thiopeptide
- tridecapeptide
- tripeptide
- undecapeptide
Translations
class of organic compounds
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Further reading
- peptide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From English peptide.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛp.tid/
Audio (file) - Homophone: peptides
Noun
peptide m (plural peptides)
- (biochemistry) peptide
Further reading
- “peptide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pepˈti.de/
- Rhymes: -ide
- Hyphenation: pep‧tì‧de
Noun
peptide m (plural peptidi)
- (biochemistry) peptide
Derived terms
- peptidico