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What does lysine mean?

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Noun
  1. (biochemistry) An essential amino acid, C6H14N2O2.
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Negative dietary changes are related to the deficiency of maize in the amino acids tryptophan and lysine.
The cationic component of the hemolymph is frequently replaced by potassium and free amino acids such as glutamate, proline, lysine and glycine.
Our first protein target was cytochrome c because it contains a positively charged surface made up of several lysine and arginine residues.
Histones have lysine tails, which can be acetylated in a post-translational modification step.
It's a key producer of lysine, a feed additive derived from amino acids that is mixed with corn and soybean meal to fatten up livestock.
They found that two amino acids in particular, tryptophan and lysine, were essential for normal growth in rats.

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