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An essential amino acid found in proteins that is important for the growth and repair of tissue
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histidine
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n. (context amino acid English) An essential amino acid C 6 H 9 N 3 O 2 found in most animal proteins; essential for tissue growth and repair.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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complex amino acid, 1896, from German histidin ; see histo- + chemical suffix -idine .
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n. an essential amino acid found in proteins that is important for the growth and repair of tissue
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Histidine (abbreviated as His or H ; encoded by the codons CAU and CAC ) is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins . It contains an α-amino group (which is in the protonated –NH form under biological conditions ), a carboxylic acid ...
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CAC, TCA, and GTC, which codes, at least here on Earth, for the amino acids histidine, serine, and valine.
Since most of the abbreviations consist of the first three letters of the name, they are not difficult to memorize: glycine gly alanine ala valine val leucine leu asparagine asp'Ntb aspartic acid asp glutamine ghrNH2 glutamic acid glu THE HUMAN BRAIN isoleucine proline phenylalanine tyrosine tryptophan serine threonine ileu pro phe tyr try ser thr lysine histidine lys his arginine methionine arg met cystine cysteine cy-S-cy-SH Of the abbreviations that are more than the first three letters of the names, ileu, asp-NH2, and ghrNH2 should be clear.