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An essential amino acid found in proteins
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valine
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n. an essential amino acid found in proteins; important for growth in children and nitrogen balance in adults
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Valine (abbreviated as Val or V ) encoded by the codons GUU, GUC, GUA, and GUG 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. (context amino acid organic compound English) An essential amino acid ''2-amino-3-methylbutanoic acid'' found in most animal proteins.
Usage examples of valine.
Five amino acids were formed- alanine, valine, leucine, glycine, and hydrogen cyanide.
Could memory, he wondered, truly be coded into chains of valine, cysteine and aspartic acid?
CAC, TCA, and GTC, which codes, at least here on Earth, for the amino acids histidine, serine, and valine.
It was the day when I sold the history of Leroi de Valines, the 1st of February.
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.
But it would give a rough percentage composition: so much valine, so much arginine, so much cystine and proline and leucine.
It proceeds much like a zipper, starting with amino acid valine at one end of the chain, closing bond after bond until the protein molecule is completed.