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- noun Plural form of
muropeptide .
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The new study found that muropeptides derived from cultures of growing cells stimulate the germination of dormant Bacillus subtilis spores.
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Those muropeptides act as powerful germinants, stimulating the spores to exit the safety of their dormant state and make a go of it.
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