tyrosine
pronunciation
How to pronounce tyrosine in British English:
UK ['tɪrəsi:n]
How to pronounce tyrosine in American English:
US ['taɪrəˌsin]
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- Noun:
- an amino acid found in most proteins; a precursor of several hormones
Word Origin
- tyrosine (n.)
- white, crystalline amino acid, 1857, coined 1846 by German chemist Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), who had first obtained it a year before from the products of a fusion of old cheese and potash, from Greek tyros "cheese" (from PIE *tu-ro-, from *teue- (2) "to swell" (see thigh) on the notion of "a swelling, coagulating") + chemical suffix -ine (2).
Example
- 1. 3 Spark your brain : high tyrosine proteins
- 2. However , the body can make tyrosine , but you still need to get
- 3. Tyrosine with two iodine atoms added .
- 4. Tyrosine and salicylic acid were not suitable for galanthamine accumulation in calluses .
- 5. When 80 % cells migrated from neurospheres differentiated into single cells , immunocytochemical identification and flow cytometry detection were utilized to determine the rate of tyrosine hydroxylase positive cells .