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phenylalanine

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an essential amino acid found in proteins and needed for growth of children and for protein metabolism in children and adults; abundant in milk and eggs; it is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context amino acid English) An essential amino acid C 9 H 11 NO 2 found in most animal proteins; it is essential for growth; the inability to metabolize it leads to phenylketonuria; it is a constituent of aspartame.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Phenylalanine (US: , UK: ; abbreviated as Phe or F ) is an α- amino acid with the formula . It can be viewed as a benzyl group substituted for the methyl group of alanine , or a phenyl group in place of a terminal hydrogen of alanine. This essential amino ...

Usage examples of phenylalanine.

In a pinch, in place of ephedrine Bennie could also use phenylalanine, an amino acid sold wholesale in health-food stores at two hundred bucks for forty pounds.

In the normal individual, the amino acid phenylalanine, an essential constituent of proteins, is routinely converted in part to the related amino acid tyrosine, also an essential constituent of proteins.

Here, then, we have a situation that could be directly analogous to the connection between phenylalanine and phenylpyruvic oligophrenia.

Meanwhile, TTT, which made phenylalanine, coded for a nucleotide insertion, while its synonym TTC was the instruction for a nucleotide deletion.

There are lots of neurotransmitter precursors in this shit, phenylalanine and glutamate.

Here, then, we have a situation that could be directly analogous to the connection between phenylalanine and phenylpyruvic oligophrenia.

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.