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An essential component of human nutrition
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threonine
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n. (context amino acid English) An essential amino acid C 4 H 19 NO 3 found in most animal proteins.
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Threonine (abbreviated as Thr or T ) encoded by the codons ACU, ACC, ACA, and ACG 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), an α-carboxylic ...
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n. a colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition
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The four codons for threonine in their RNA coding are ACU, ACC, ACA, and ACG.
The four codons for threonine in their RNA coding are ACU, ACC, ACA, and ACG.
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.