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Alanine

Definition: Alanine

Alanine

Noun

1. A crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Alanine \Al"a*nine\, noun. [Aldehyde the ending -ine. The -n- is euphonic insertion.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Specialty Definitions: Alanine

DomainDefinitions

Health

A non-essential amino acid that occurs in high levels in its free state in plasma. It is produced from pyruvate by transamination. It is involved in sugar and acid metabolism, increases immunity, and provides energy for muscle tissue, brain, and the central nervous system. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Alanine

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Alanine is one of the 20 most common natural amino acids. It is hydrophobic, with a methyl group side chain, and is the second-smallest of the 20 after glycine.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alanine."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Alanine

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
AlAtEnglishAlanine aminotransferaseN/A
ALATFrenchAlanine aminotransféraseMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: Alanine

English words defined with "alanine": Lactamide, Lactimide. (references)
Specialty definitions using "alanine": Alanine Racemase, Alanine Transaminase, Alanine-tRNA Ligasegamma-GlutamylcyclotransferaseRNA, Transfer, AlaSaralasin. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Alanine

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The serum alanine aminotransferase test should be discontinued as a surrogate marker for blood donors likely to transmit posttransfusion non-A, non-B hepatitis infection since specific hepatitis C antibody testing has eliminated more than 85 percent of these cases. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Alanine

"Alanine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 47.06% of the time. "Alanine" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)47.06%8124,375
Adjective (general or positive)47.06%8124,375
Noun (proper)5.88%1339,140
                    Total100.00%17N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Alanine

Expressions using "alanine": Alanine Racemase Alanine Transaminase. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "alanine": alanine-rich, Alanine-tRNA Ligase.

Ending with "alanine": beta-Alanine, formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenyl-alanine, Leucine-2-Alanine.

Containing "alanine": N-Acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine Amidase.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alanine

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

alanine aminotransferase

44

alanine

31

l alanine

31

alanine transaminase

5

beta alanine

5

alanine amino transferase

3
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Modern Translations: Alanine

Language Translations for "alanine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

胺基代丙酸. (various references)

   

Danish

  

alanin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

alanine. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

alaniini. (various references)

   

French

  

alanine. (various references)

   

German

  

Alanin. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αλανίνη. (various references)

   

Italian

  

alanina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alanineay

   

Portuguese

  

alanina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alanina. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

alanin. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Alanine

Derivations

Words beginning with "alanine": alanines. (additional references)

Words ending with "alanine": phenylalanine. (additional references)

Words containing "alanine": phenylalanines. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Alanine"

Words rhyming with "alanine" (pronounced 'Al"a*nine'): Apennine, Asinine, Cinchonine, Conchinine, Conine, Cotarnine, Cyanine, Delphinine, Eburnine, Ecgonine, Echidnine, Falconine, Fescennine, Festennine, Iodoquinine, Laburnine, Laudanine, leonine, Longipennine, Nicotianine, opianine, Oscinine, paeonine, Paraconine, Pavonine, Quinine, Ranine, Ricinine, Safranine, saturnine, Solanine, Struthionine, strychnine, Subapennine, Vernine, Vespertilionine, Xanthinine. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Alanine

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-n"

-1 letter: alanin, anneal.

-2 letters: alane, alien, aline, anile, annal, elain, inane, lanai, liana, liane, linen.

-3 letters: alae, alan, anal, anil, anna, elan, ilea, lain, lane, lean, lien, line, linn, naan, nail, nana, nine.

-4 letters: aal, ail, ain, ala, ale, ana, ane, ani, inn, lea, lei, lie, lin, nae, nan, nil.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ai, al, an.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-n-n"
 

+1 letter: alanines, melanian.

 

+2 letters: almandine, annealing, annelidan, annualize, antialien, cantilena, carnelian, galantine.

 

+3 letters: adrenaline, alienating, alienation, almandines, annelidans, annihilate, annualized, annualizes, cantilenas, carnelians, emalangeni, galantines, lanthanide, mainlander, malignance, negational, semiannual, tangential.

 

+4 letters: adrenalines, alexandrine, alienations, alloantigen, alternating, alternation, annihilated, annihilates, antenuptial, antinuclear, ascensional, attentional, calendaring, cancelation, cannibalise, cannibalize, containable, expansional, explanation, inalienable, inalienably, inanimately, inenarrable, interannual, lamentation, lanthanides, lineamental, mainlanders, malignances, millenarian, nationalise, nationalize, nonmaterial, quadrennial, reanalyzing, rebalancing, sensational, transalpine, unalienable, unalienated, unappealing, uniparental, valiantness.

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Alternative Orthography: Alanine


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 61 6E 69 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-..    .-    -.    ..    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01100001 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 0061 006E 0069 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35786780758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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