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What does cysteine mean?

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Noun
  1. (biochemistry) A sulphur-containing nonessential amino acid C3H7NO2S found in most animal proteins; it readily oxidizes to cystine.
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Instead, the seed cysteine concentrations were consistently slightly lower for the transgenic seed flour than for the non-transgenic controls.
Briefly, the washed hair was digested in an alkaline solution, complexed by cysteine, urea, and cupric ion, then acidified with sulfuric acid.
The authors explain that this is an indication of an enhanced metabolic flux through cysteine to glutathione in all groups of transgenic plants.
As long as the supply of methionine is adequate, cysteine is considered as nonessential.
Whey proteins are also rich in the sulfur-containing amino acids cysteine and methionine.
The gelatinase activity was due to metalloproteinases and not cysteine or serine proteinases.

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