ARGININE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arginine mean? 

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

1. a bitter tasting amino acid found in proteins and necessary for nutrition; its absence from the diet leads to a reduced production of spermatozoa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARGININE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bitter tasting amino acid found in proteins and necessary for nutrition; its absence from the diet leads to a reduced production of spermatozoa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("arginine" 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)

 Context examples 

NG-nitro-L-arginine is being studied in the treatment of cancer and other conditions.

(NG-nitro-L-arginine, NCI Dictionary)

Upon administration, NG-nitro-L-arginine inhibits the enzyme nitric oxide synthase, thereby preventing the formation of nitric oxide (NO).

(NG-nitro-L-arginine, NCI Thesaurus)

It is synthesized from arginine by a complex reaction, catalyzed by NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE.

(Nitric Oxide, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Once activated, NOSIII catabolizes L-arginine to NO, which diffuses out of the cell.

(Nitric Oxide Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This species is nonmotile, metabolizes arginine with the subsequent release of ammonia into the broth medium, resistant to penicillins and cephalosporins, while tetracycline (adults only) and erythromycin are effective chemotherapeutic agents.

(Mycoplasma hominis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is catalase negative, does not hydrolyze arginine, does not reduce nitrate and is assachrolytic.

(Mogibacterium timidum, NCI Thesaurus)

Arginine and histidine contain 5 adjacent carbons and a sixth carbon attached through a nitrogen atom.

(Arginine, Histidine, Glutamate, Glutamine, and Proline Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

When the amino acid L-arginine, which can increase eNOS activity and NO production, was added to the dishes containing blood vessels from HSD mice, the cells responded normally.

(Hold the salt: gut reaction may impair the brains of mice, National Institutes of Health)

This species is motile by one to eight flagella from multiple origins, oxidase and catalase negative, does not hydrolyze esculin, is stimulated from arginine, weakly reduces nitrate and produces acid from glycogen.

(Mobiluncus mulieris, NCI Thesaurus)

The dephosphorylation of nNOS by Calcineurin catalyzes the conversion of arginine to citrulline and nitric oxide (NO), which turns on guanylate cyclase and the various cGMP regulated signaling pathways.

(Nitric Oxide Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)