cysteine

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• The addition of wheat and maize to grass-pea preparations could compensate for the deficiency of methionine and cysteine, as well as dilute the concentration of toxins.

  Academic text (2003)

• And likewise, beans tend to be low in methionine and cysteine in proportion to what they need.

• You've got a lot of cysteine peptide groups.

• Likewise, GSH is limited by the rare amino acid cysteine.

  Academic text (2011)

• About half the cysteine used for glutathione synthesis is produced by the trans-sulfuration pathway.

  Blog text (19)

• The mutations changed a key amino acid—arginine—into one of three other amino acids: histidine, cysteine, or serine.

  Academic text (2005)

• Briefly, this involved treating keratin in an oxidizing solution at a low pH, and then heating the mixture to oxidize cysteine (CYS) residues in the protein.

  Academic text (2018)

• Fertilized eggs were de-jellied for 5 minutes with a solution containing 1 g cysteine (Sigma) and 1 ml of 5 N NaOH in 50 ml ddH2O.

  Academic text (2018)

• Cysteine is an important amino acid found in many proteins, and it plays a crucial role in the formation of cysteine disulfide bonds.

• The human body can synthesize cysteine from other amino acids, but it is also available in dietary sources like garlic and onions.

Synonyms

C

Cys

vscysteine

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A short form for cysteine, an amino acid that is a building block of proteins

is the full name rather than the shortened written form

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