esculentin

English

Etymology

esculent +‎ -in

Noun

esculentin (countable and uncountable, plural esculentins)

1. A particular steroid glycoside.
   • 2015 April 2, Babatunji Emmanuel Oyinloye et al., “Reactive Oxygen Species, Apoptosis, Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Inflammatory Diseases”, in Pharmaceuticals‎^[1], volume 8, →DOI:

     Secondly, AMPs having one disulfide bond which pack into a loop structure having a tail e.g., bactenecins and esculentins.

Anagrams

• inesculent