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Polyamine vs Peptide - What's the difference?

polyamine | peptide |

As nouns the difference between polyamine and peptide

is that polyamine is (organic chemistry) any compound having many (more than three) amino functional groups; especially such compounds formed by decomposition of proteins while peptide is .

polyamine

English

Noun

(wikipedia polyamine) (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) any compound having many (more than three) amino functional groups; especially such compounds formed by decomposition of proteins

    • Derived terms

    * acetylpolyamine * polyamine oxidase

    peptide

    English

    (wikipedia peptide)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biochemistry) 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.
  • (biochemistry) The peptide bond itself.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * dipeptide * lipopeptide * mucopeptide * neuropeptide * octapeptide * pentapeptide * peptide chain * polypeptide * tripeptide ----