thiopeptide

Questions

What does thiopeptide mean?

Any of a family of antibiotics composed of a ring structure containing highly modified amino acids and a linear peptide containing dehydroalanines extending from the ring at a pyridyl group

Where does thiopeptide come from?

From thio- + peptide.

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