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mucocomplex (複数形 mucocomplexes)

1. A complex mixture of mucopolysaccharides.
   • 1963, Roger Y. Stanier, The microbial world, page 142:

     In the lower protists, and only in these organisms, the structural material is a complex polymer of the type known as a mucocomplex substance, which is constructed from two amino sugars and three or four amino acids.

   • 1988, Paul A. Ketchum, Microbiology: Concepts and Applications, page 80:

     The thick homogeneous layer is composed of a carbohydrate-peptide polymer known as the mucocomplex (also referred to as the murein または the mucopeptide layer).