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dipeptide

n. (context biochemistry organic chemistry English) An organic compound formed from two amino acids joined by a peptide bond.

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Dipeptide

A dipeptide is a sometimes ambiguous designation of two classes of organic compounds: Its molecules contain either two amino acids joined by a single peptide bond or one amino acid with two peptide bonds.

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It has become customary to express the size of such small chains by using a Greek number prefix to indicate the number of amino acids in it: a dipeptide ("two-peptide" G) is a combination of two amino acids, a tripeptide ("three-peptide" G) of three, a tetrapepttde {"four-peptide" G) of four, and so on.