Medical Dictionary

transpeptidation

noun trans·pep·ti·da·tion \-ˌpep-tə-ˈdā-shən\

Medical Definition of TRANSPEPTIDATION

:  a chemical reaction (as the reversible conversion of one peptide to another by a protease) in which an amino acid residue or a peptide residue is transferred from one amino compound to another

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