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alanine
[ al-uh-neen, -nin ]
noun
, Biochemistry.
- any of several isomers of a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble amino acid, CH 3 CH(NH 2 )COOH, found in many proteins and produced synthetically: used chiefly in biochemical research. : Ala; : A
alanine
/ ˈæləˌniːn; -ˌnaɪn /
noun
- a nonessential aliphatic amino acid that occurs in many proteins
alanine
/ ăl′ə-nēn′ /
- A nonessential amino acid. Chemical formula: C 3 H 7 NO 2 .
- See more at amino acid
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Word History and Origins
Origin of alanine1
1860–65; al(dehyde) + -an- (arbitrarily inserted) + -ine 2
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Word History and Origins
Origin of alanine1
C19: from German Alanin, from al ( dehyde ) + -an- (euphonic infix) + -in -ine ²
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Example Sentences
The team saw that when a virus with an alanine gets into lab-grown human lung cells, it makes more copies of itself than do versions that instead have threonine.
Once a virus with an alanine gets into laboratory-grown human lung cells, it replicates more than versions with threonine, the team found.
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