GLUTAMINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glutamine mean? 

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

1. a crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLUTAMINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

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

 Context examples 

Diethylhomospermine (DEHSPM) antagonizes polyamine activity via NMDA receptor glutamine binding site, thereby modulating inotropic stasis and reducing stool volume (anti-diarrhea).

(Diethylhomospermine, NCI Thesaurus)

Now, instead of using dietary antibiotics to help the piglets cope and avoid illness, scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are investigating a naturally occurring amino acid known as L-glutamine.

(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

With cell culture and other laboratory experiments, the researchers determined that the mutations led to defective activation of two cell-signaling pathways, one of which typically is activated in part by glutamine.

(Scientists identify single-gene mutations that lead to atopic dermatitis, National Institutes of Health)

Together, the results suggest glutamine may reduce HSV reactivation by improving the T-cell response to infection.

(Glutamine suppresses herpes in mice and guinea pigs, National Institutes of Health)

This allele, which encodes gamma-glutamyl hydrolase protein, plays a role in glutamine metabolism.

(GGH wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the regulation of glutamine catabolism.

(GLS2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Implicated mechanisms of action include decreased protein prenylation, activation of the peroxisome proliferation-activated receptors, inhibition of DNA methylation, and depletion of glutamine.

(Phenyl Acetate, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibition of glutamine amidotransferase inhibits de novo purine synthesis and results in inhibition of DNA synthesis and cell cycle arrest.

(Glutamine Amidotransferase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes glutaminase liver isoform, mitochondrial protein, is involved in the hydrolysis if L-glutamine.

(GLS2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Antineoplaston AS2-1 inhibits the incorporation of L-glutamine into tumor-cell proteins, leading to cell cycle arrest in the G1 phase and inhibition of mitosis.

(Antineoplaston AS2-1, NCI Thesaurus)