mucopeptiden.
/ˌmjuːkəʊˈpɛptʌɪd/, U.S. /ˌmjukoʊˈpɛpˌtaɪd/ Biochemistry.
= peptidoglycan n.
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capsule1883
conidium1925
macroconidium1930
nucleoid1938
muramic acid1957
mucopeptide1959
mesosome1960
rhapidosome1963
murein1964
peptidoglycan1966
1959 J. Mandelstam & H. J. Rogers in Biochem. Jrnl. 72 655/1 This class of substances from cell walls, which will be referred to as mucopeptides, constitutes a high proportion of the hot trichloroacetic acid-insoluble material from bacteria.
1972 Nature 3 Mar. 10/1 This is surrounded by, or interwoven with, a more rigid cell wall..built up from a limited number of constituents and known variously as mucopeptide, peptidoglycan or murein.
1998 Infection & Immunity 66 3552 d-Alanine is required for the synthesis of the mucopeptide component of the cell walls of virtually all bacteria.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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