How to pronounce“kahalalide”in English
verbIPA/kæhælælæɪd/
Syllableska·ha·la·lide
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These bacteria are so specialized that they can’t live on their own, and about a quarter of all their messenger RNAs — those protein “scripts” we mentioned earlier — are
dedicated to kahalalide synthesis.
The kahalalides they produce would normally keep the algae safe, but the slugs have evolved an immunity to their effects.
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Definitions of “kahalalide”
noun
Any of a family of depsipeptides that show antitumour activity
“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.”