Definition of «synthetic peptide»

A synthetic peptide is a man-made chain of amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. It is created in a laboratory instead of being naturally produced by living organisms. Synthetic peptides are often used in research and medicine to study specific proteins and their functions.

Sentences with «synthetic peptide»

An article on the research, «Purification of Synthetic Peptides Using a Catching Full - Length Sequence by Polymerization Approach,» coauthored by Fang, postdoctoral fellow Mingcui Zhang and graduate student Durga Pokharel, was published online in the journal Organic Letters. (sciencedaily.com)
Performed invitro binding assays with synthetic peptides immobilized on beads. (resumemycareer.com)
The antibodies were against the stalk of this mushroom, and by using this mushroom stalk only, we made synthetic peptides of this stalk. (scientificamerican.com)
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