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alanine

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈæləniːn/Part of speech nounSorted aaeilnnStarts with AEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins

Word origin

From aldehyde + -anine, in reference to aldehyde, with the infix -an- for ease of pronunciation, when the German chemist Adolph Strecker first synthesized alanine in 1850 by mixing acetaldehyde (then just known as aldehyde) with ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, and hydrochloric acid.

Used in a sentence

  • Potatoes can be a good source of alanine.
  • Two alanines are replaced by prolines.

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