单词 | peptone |
释义 | peptonen. Biochemistry. A mixture of proteins made soluble by partial digestion or hydrolysis, now widely used in microbiological culture media. Also: any soluble protein in such a mixture. ΚΠ 1855 C. H. Jones Pathol. Stomach ii. 29 Saturation of the fluid with peptons, or other organic, azotized, or non-azotized substances. 1860 Year-bk. Med. 1859 (New Sydenham Soc.) 76 Peptone has a very much higher endosmotic equivalent than simple albumen. 1881 C. Darwin Form. Veg. Mould 43 In such plants as Drosera and Dionæa;..animal matter is digested and converted into peptone not within a stomach, but on the surface of the leaves. 1917 H. W. Conn Bacteria, Yeasts, & Molds in Home (rev. ed.) 233 Mix together in a common stew pan..10 grams of peptone. 100 grams of gelatin. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xviii. 274 Pepsin in the presence of hydrochloric acid attacks the protein contents of the food and reduces them to soluble peptones. 1998 Biol. & Pharmaceut. Bull. 21 1057 The bactericidal activity using the measurement system supplemented with peptone was influenced by the molecular hydrophobicity. Compounds peptone water n. Microbiology a solution or broth of peptone used as a culture medium. ΚΠ 1905 Science 31 Mar. 503/1 It [sc. a bacterium] does not produce gas but is strictly aerobic in peptone water with various carbon foods. 1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) iv. 50 The other method is to incubate cultures in broth or peptone water for 2–5 days. 1993 Lancet 26 June 1661/1 Current methods of detecting and classifying cholera vibrios..involve culture in alkaline peptone water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1855 |
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