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What is a polypeptide?

What is a polypeptide? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) Any polymer of (same or different) amino acids joined via peptide bonds.
  2. (biochemistry) Any such polymer that is not folded into a secondary structure of a protein.
  3. (biochemistry) A small protein containing up to 100 amino acids; see also oligopeptide.
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The leader transcript contains an open reading frame which encodes a polypeptide of 44 amino acids.
One such intervention involves the intravenous injection of secretin, a gastrointestinal polypeptide.
Protein synthesis inhibitors can rapidly block translation elongation and cause release of truncated polypeptide chains.
It is a basic protein with a single polypeptide chain and acts on cellular and model lipid membranes.
Intranasal calcitonin is a polypeptide hormone that also inhibits osteoclastic activity.
The LDL receptor is a polypeptide of 839 amino acids that spans the plasma membrane.

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