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What is an alanine?

What is an alanine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) A nonessential amino acid 2-aminopropanoic acid found in most animal proteins
  2. (countable) A specific residue, molecule, or isomer of this amino acid
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Other key products include the carbon skeletons of certain primary amino acids, such as alanine, glutamate, and aspartate.
All of these silks are composed of protein chains in which the amino acids glycine, alanine, and serine dominate.
Also, a combination of the amino acids glycine, alanine and glutamic acid can relieve symptoms of prostatitis.
Consequently, changing the arginine to an alanine or glutamic acid abolishes this interaction completely.
They look like alanine molecules, or amino acids, or like chloroform.
The GPP protein also contains several regions rich in alanine, proline, histidine, and glutamine.

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