How to pronounce“peptide”in English
verbYeah, okay. How would you explain it? So, you eat amino acids, you eat protein and it breaks down into amino acids. Yeah. And amino acids link up with
peptide bonds into chains called peptides. And then peptides What's a peptide bond? Uh, it's just a simplistic bond that binds two amino acids
together. So, it can be broken pretty readily with different enzymes. And that's in my body, the peptide bond is in my body. Yeah, so your body has all
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Definitions of “peptide”
Any of a class of organic compounds consisting of various numbers of amino acids in which the amine of one is reacted with the carboxylic acid of the next to form an amide bond. Such molecules joined into polypeptides and proteins constitute crucial components of living organisms.
“When it’s digested, its long amino-acid chains are first broken down into smaller fragments, or peptides. It turns out that many hormones and drugs are also peptides, and a number of casein peptides do affect the body in hormone-like ways.”
The peptide bond itself.
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