THREONINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does threonine mean? 

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

1. a colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THREONINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("threonine" 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 

AT9283 is a type of serine/threonine protein kinase inhibitor.

(AT9283, NCI Dictionary)

This protein plays a role in signaling, serine/threonine phosphorylation and ligand binding.

(Anti-Muellerian Hormone Type-2 Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally bioavailable indole-3-carbinol (I3C) analogue inhibitor of the serine/threonine protein kinase Akt (protein kinase B) with potential antineoplastic and antiangiogenic activities.

(Akt Inhibitor SR13668, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in both serine/threonine phosphorylation and NF-kappaB signaling pathways.

(Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinase Kinase 14, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in serine/threonine phosphorylation, transcription factor phosphorylation and signaling.

(Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 7, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers found that borrelidin simultaneously occupies the enzyme binding sites for the amino acid L-threonine, molecule tRNA, and energy molecule ATP.

(Scientists Discover Antibiotic Mechanism, NIH)

This protein plays a role in transcriptional regulation, serine/threonine phosphorylation and both cytokine-dependent and stress-activated signaling.

(Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in serine/threonine phosphorylation.

(Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 4, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally bioavailable allosteric inhibitor of the serine/threonine protein kinase Akt (protein kinase B) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Akt Inhibitor MK2206, NCI Thesaurus)

Akt-1 is a serine-threonine protein kinase that stimulates proliferation and inhibits apoptosis of tumor cells.

(Archexin, NCI Thesaurus)