serine

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A sweet-tasting amino acid that is part of many proteins in living things

noun
/ˈsɛrɪn/

Specialized

: serina

An abnormal phosphorylation site in A68, a serine residue, has also been identified.
alanine to serine
serine-threonine

For example, if you're eating beef, you're eating for creatine, carnitine, taurine and serine, bioavailable iron, zinc, selenium.

Examples

So the two chromosomes are here and this codon specifies a serine amino acid here and a leucine here.
Environmental limitations of asparagine, tryptophan, serine (Ma et al., 2017), and arginine have all been demonstrated to impact immune cell function under various conditions in vivo.

Academic text (2016)
So to answer your question, it works best for serine but to a lesser extent for six others.

Blog text (14)
Glycine, serine, alanine, and threonine are all non-essential amino acids.

Academic text (2018)
Serine can be phosphorylated or glycosylated and thereby can modulate the functional activity of the encoded protein.

Academic text (1996)
A 1-PI is the chief proteinase inhibitor present in the highest amount inhibiting the serine proteinases elastase and trypsin.

Academic text (2007)
Carboxylesterase 1 is a serine esterase, responsible for the hydrolysis of ester- and amide-bond-containing substrates, including xenobiotics and drugs.

Academic text (2018)
Interestingly, the amino acid she observes the best results with (serine) is entirely absent from meteorites (the Murchison meteorite anyway).

Blog text (14)
The mutations changed a key amino acid—arginine—into one of three other amino acids: histidine, cysteine, or serine.

Academic text (2005)
The body produces several amino acids, including serine, which is crucial for protein synthesis.

Surface Forms

serine singular

serines plural

Etymology

Serine comes from the Latin sericum, meaning 'silk', because it was first found in silk protein. So, serine is an amino acid named for that 'silk' origin and is a common building block of many proteins.