How to Use polypeptide in a Sentence

polypeptide

noun

• Almost all of the increase and almost all of the total was due to an increase in polypeptides, which are used to make insulin.
  — Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
• There are also polypeptide chains that are the sides of the ladder, connecting the rungs vertically.
  — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 8 Apr. 2022
• That is seven more years those polypeptides would receive if they were approved under the rules for regular small-molecule drugs, such as pills.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• This powerful polypeptide helps add hydration to your skin while also working to firm and diminish the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
  — Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2024
• Repeats with a lot of proline, threonine and serine transform a typical protein to a mucin because of the polypeptide structure that is formed.
  — Coren Walters-Stewart, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
• The polypeptides are even resistant to reheating, a major aspect in overall food production.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
• It is synthesized as part of two much longer polypeptides, the product of the initial long open reading frame (orf1a), and from the orf1b, the orf1ab polypeptide.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• It’s formulated with B-silk, a polypeptide designed to emulate strong spider silk, plus rice protein and panthenol to keep the lash line nourished and healthy.
  — Genevieve Cepeda, InStyle, 6 Feb. 2026
• Within a fraction of a second of its creation, a polypeptide string bends, buckles and folds precisely into the protein’s final three-dimensional shape.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2024
• Aviptadil is a synthetic form of human vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, which is highly concentrated in the lungs.
  — Melissa Healystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2020
• But Mounjaro targets a second hormone, the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, as well.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 14 May 2022
• The hero ingredient is vegan collagen and elastin polypeptides, plus two types of hyaluronic acid for major hydration and niacinamide for a healthy skin barrier.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
• After adding the polypeptides, the dessert could withstand temperatures as low as -4 degrees Fahrenheit before degrading.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
• The formula combines antioxidant-rich grape seed and sweet almond oils with polypeptides (long chains of amino acids that act as building blocks for collagen and elastin) to help boost skin’s elasticity and resilience.
  — Jamie Ballard, Allure, 14 Nov. 2025
• This implied an elementary kind of coding, a basis for the exchange of information between the RNA and the polypeptide.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
• The researchers found success using soy protein isolate—which has an entirely different molecular composition from spider silk—due to the fact that all proteins are comprised of polypeptide chains.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2021
• Keep your lips moisturized with this ultra-hydrating, plumping, polypeptide treatment that increases the volume of lip contours, leaving the appearance of naturally full lips.
  — Daisy Maldonado, SELF, 12 Aug. 2022
• Once its polypeptide chain is assembled, a protein can fold into its structure within a thousandth of a second — a timescale that perplexed the molecular biologist Cyrus Levinthal.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2024
• For years, researchers have unsuccessfully tried to harness these polypeptides’ antifreezing properties, but directly extracting the compounds from fish is simply too costly and not scalable.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
• What’s missing from such previous complexity measures, Cronin said, is any sense of the history of the complex object — the measures don’t distinguish between an enzyme and a random polypeptide.
  — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2023
• Second, tirzepatide has also been shown to bind to receptors that are normally targeted by glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) hormones.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Through their online escapades, tweens have come across products like Drunk Elephant’s polypeptide cream and The Ordinary’s squalane serum that contain skin-firming retinol meant for older, wrinkle-fearing adults.
  — Bysasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 29 June 2024
• These polypeptides then fold into complex three-dimensional structures called proteins, driven by a combination of hydrophobic interactions, hydrogen bonds and electrostatic forces between atoms along the chain.
  — Kj Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• This supplement powder is rich in immunoglobulin, lactoferrin, and proline-rich polypeptides (PRPs), all of which work together to support immune function and protect against infection.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
• This drug differs from semaglutide by targeting receptors for the hormone gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) in addition to GLP-1.
  — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
• In 2015, Krishnamurthy, Hud and their collaborators showed that trying to understand the origins of polypeptide synthesis by focusing only on amino acids, the building blocks of peptides, might be the wrong tack.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• This includes a peptide known as vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), which is understood to have Alzehimer’s-busting effects and is associated with the regulation of blood flow and glymphatic clearance.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Other forms of iron in iron supplements include heme iron polypeptides (HIP), carbonyl iron, iron amino-acid chelates, and polysaccharide-iron complexes (PIC), which have fewer gastrointestinal side effects when compared to the ferric and ferrous salts.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026