leucine
pronunciation
How to pronounce leucine in British English:
UK ['lu:si:n]
How to pronounce leucine in American English:
US ['luˌsin]
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- Noun:
- a white crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins that is essential for nutrition; obtained by the hydrolysis of most dietary proteins
Word Origin
Example
- 1. Protein also contains leucine , an amino acid that prevents muscle loss when you 're dieting .
- 2. The two missing links in the chain ( a phenylalanine and a leucine , for aficionados ) are encoded in the gene for ordinary tomcod ahr by six genetic " letters " that are missing from the dna found in pcb-resistant hudson tomcod .