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^[1], →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.

Derived terms

• acyldepsipeptide
• cyclodepsipeptide
• dodecadepsipeptide
• glycolipodepsipeptide
• heptadepsipeptide
• hexadepsipeptide
• lipodepsipeptide
• octadepsipeptide
• polydepsipeptide
• tetradepsipeptide