ALANINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alanine mean? 

• ALANINE (noun)
  The noun ALANINE has 1 sense:

1. a crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins

  Familiarity information: ALANINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALANINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

amino acid; aminoalkanoic acid (organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group)

 Context examples 

An analogue of the amino acid D-alanine with broad-spectrum antibiotic and glycinergic activities.

(Cycloserine, NCI Thesaurus)

Part of tryptophan is found in alanine, which is converted directly to pyruvate through transamination.

(Catabolic Pathways for Alanine, Glycine, Serine, Cysteine, Tryptophan, and Threonine, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The team tracked the brain’s usage of glucose by measuring ratios of the amino acids serine, glycine and alanine to glucose, allowing them to assess rates of the key steps of glycolysis.

(Higher brain glucose levels may mean more severe Alzheimer’s, National Institutes of Health)

This agent also upregulates the expression of transcription coactivator PGC-1alpha and modulates hepatic enzymes such as alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), superoxide dismutase and glutathion peroxidase.

(Diammonium Glycyrrhizinate, NCI Thesaurus)

A racemic mixture of alanine, a non-essential alpha-amino acid.

(DL-Alanine, NCI Thesaurus)

Alanine goes through transamination to release pyruvate, which can be used as fuel.

(Feeding Amino Groups into the Urea Cycle, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Fludalanine is an irreversible inhibitor of bacterial alanine racemase, an enzyme required for the generation of the bacterial cell wall precursor, D-alanine.

(Fludalanine, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes alanine aminotransferase protein, plays a role in the reversible transamination between alanine and 2-oxoglutarate to generate pyruvate and glutamate.

(GPT wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The l-alanine ester form of estramustine, a combination of the nitrogen mustard normustine coupled via a carbamate to estradiol, with antineoplastic activity.

(Alestramustine, NCI Thesaurus)

A high level of alanine transferase released into the blood may be a sign of liver damage, cancer, or other diseases.

(Alanine transferase, NCI Dictionary)