Where does “peptidoglycan” come from?
Peptidoglycan is a 20th-century English compound of peptide and glycan, combining Greek péptós meaning digested with glycan, a polymer of sugars.
peptidoglycan (English): A polymer of glycan and peptides found in...
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- A polymer of glycan and peptides found in...
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