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polyphenylalanine

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  • noun biochemistry A polypeptide (or fragment) containing only phenylalanine

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  • In particular they found that polyuridylic acid - an RNA in which every base is uracil - will promote the synthesis of polyphenylalanine when added to a cell-free system which was already known to synthesize polypeptide chains.

    Francis Crick - Nobel Lecture 1964

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