methionine
IPA: mˈɛθiʌnaɪn
noun
- (biochemistry, organic chemistry) A lipotropic, sulphur-containing essential amino acid, C₅H₁₁NO₂S, found in most protein.
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Examples of "methionine" in Sentences
- Most legumes are also low in methionine.
- Homocysteine can be recycled into methionine.
- This enzyme participates in methionine metabolism.
- The preferred amino acids are methionine and glycine.
- Ethionine is an antimetabolite and methionine antagonist.
- These enzymes work to transform methionine into cysteine.
- Methionine or not methionine at the beginning of a protein.
- Soybeans are limiting in methionine and cysteine, not lacking.
- Methionine synthase catalyzes the final step in methionine biosynthesis.
- It carries out the enzymatic reduction of methionine sulfoxide to methionine.
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