bactenecin

English

Noun

bactenecin (plural bactenecins)

1. (biochemistry) Any of a family of antimicrobial cyclic peptides found in the granules of bovine neutrophils
   • 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.