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ARGININE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bitter tasting amino acid found in proteins and necessary for nutrition; its absence from the diet leads to a reduced production of spermatozoa

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("arginine" is a kind of...):

essential amino acid (an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet)

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Any substance that inhibits nitric oxide synthase, an enzyme that catalyzes the production of nitric oxide from L-arginine.

(Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes protein-arginine deiminase type-4 protein, plays a role in the post-translational protein modification.

(PADI4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in arginine modification.

(PADI4 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, arginine deiminase breaks down the amino acid arginine into citrulline.

(Pegylated arginine deiminase, NCI Thesaurus)

The sequence contains positively charged amino acids such as arginine and lysine.

(Nuclear Localization Signal, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nitric-oxide synthase, endothelial protein, is involved in the biosynthesis of nitric oxide from L-arginine and molecular oxygen.

(NOS3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nitric-oxide synthase, brain protein, is involved in nitric oxide biosynthesis from L-arginine and molecular oxygen.

(NOS1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nitric oxide synthase, inducible protein, plays a role in the biosynthesis of nitric oxide from L-arginine and molecular oxygen.

(NOS2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nitric-oxide synthase IIB protein, is involved in the biosynthesis of nitric oxide from L-arginine and molecular oxygen.

(NOS2B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes nitric-oxide synthase IIC protein, plays a role in the biosynthesis of nitric oxide from L-arginine and molecular oxygen.

(NOS2C wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)