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METHIONINE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crystalline amino acid containing sulfur; found in most proteins and essential for nutrition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("methionine" 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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Homocysteine is a product of methionine metabolism and elevated plasma levels are associated with cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer disease and several metabolic diseases.

(Homocysteine, NCI Thesaurus)

Methionine synthase reductase (725 aa, ~80 kDa) is encoded by the human MTRR gene.

(Methionine Synthase Reductase, NCI Thesaurus)

Methionine synthase (1265 aa, ~141 kDa) is encoded by the human MTR gene.

(Methionine Synthase, NCI Thesaurus)

Methionine is added because animals won't grow without it.

(US Researchers Genetically Modify Corn to Boost Nutritional Value, VOA News)

This allele, which encodes methionine synthase protein, is involved in the synthesis of methionine.

(MTR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase protein, plays a role in the methylation of homocysteine to form methionine.

(MTHFR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

"We found if you stress the cells in a certain way, the code for methionine changes," he says.

(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)

A synthetic peptide cancer vaccine consisting of amino acid residues 209 through 217 of the glycoprotein 100 (gp100) melanoma antigen, with a methionine substitution at position 210 designed to improve immunogenicity.

(gp100:209-217(210M) Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes methionine synthase reductase protein, is involved in both B vitamin metabolism and methionine synthesis.

(MTRR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

TNP-470 binds to and irreversibly inactivates methionine aminopeptidase-2 (MetAP2), resulting in endothelial cell cycle arrest late in the G1 phase and inhibition of tumor angiogenesis.

(O-Chloroacetylcarbamoylfumagillol, NCI Thesaurus)