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alanine

/al-uh-neen, -nin/US // ˈæl əˌnin, -nɪn //UK // (ˈæləˌniːn, -ˌnaɪn) //

丙氨酸,阿拉宁,阿拉尼,阿兰尼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Biochemistry.

    • : any of several isomers of a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble amino acid, CH3CHCOOH, found in many proteins and produced synthetically: used chiefly in biochemical research. Abbreviation: Ala; Symbol: A

Examples

  • 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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