Histidine

Definition: Histidine

Histidine

Noun

1. An essential amino acid found in proteins that is important for the growth and repair of tissue.

Specialty Definitions: Histidine

Domain	Definitions
Health	An essential amino acid important in a number of metabolic processes. It is required for the production of histamine. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Histidine

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Histidine is one of the 20 most common natural amino acids, coded for in DNA. Nutritionally, in humans, histidine is considered an essential amino acid, but only in children. The nitrogen side chains of histidine and the relatively neutral pK (ca 6.0) of the histine proton mean that this amino acid side chain finds its way into considerable use as a coordinating ligand in metalloproteins, and also as a catalytic site.

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Crosswords: Histidine

English words defined with "histidine": histaminase, histamine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "histidine": Ames test, ATP Phosphoribosyltransferase ♦ Brocresine ♦ Formiminoglutamic Acid ♦ Histidine Ammonia-Lyase, Histidine Decarboxylase, Histidine-tRNA Ligase, Histidinol, Histidinol-Phosphatase ♦ Interferon Alfa-2a, Interferon Alfa-2b ♦ Methylhistidines ♦ Peptide PHI, Phosphoribosyl Pyrophosphate ♦ RNA, Transfer, His ♦ Salmonella Typhimurium histidine reversion system, Salmonella-microsome test. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Histidine

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		A depressor amine derived by enzymatic decarboxylation of histidine. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Histidine

"Histidine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Histidine" is used about 13 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.31%	12	101,599
Noun (proper)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

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Expression: Histidine

Expressions using "histidine": Histidine Ammonia-Lyase ♦ Histidine Decarboxylase ♦ Salmonella Typhimurium histidine reversion system. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "histidine": histidine-containing, Histidine-tRNA Ligase.
	Ending with "histidine": l-histidine.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Histidine

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
histidine	34
coenzyme histidine q10	13
antibody histidine	12
l histidine	10
histidine decarboxylase	7
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Modern Translations: Histidine

Language		Translations for "histidine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		histidin. (various references)

Dutch		histidinum, histidine, aminozuur (amino acid, aminoacid). (various references)

Finnish		histidiini. (various references)

French		histidine. (various references)

German		Histidin, His (hyperimmune serum), Ergotidin. (various references)

Greek		ιστιδίνη. (various references)

Italian		istidina, imidazolalanina. (various references)

Pig Latin		istidinehay

Portuguese		histidina. (various references)

Spanish		histidina. (various references)

Swedish		histidin. (various references)
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Derivations: Histidine

Derivations
	Words beginning with "histidine": histidines. (additional references)
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Rhyming with "Histidine"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "histidine" (pronounced hi"studē'n)
4	-u d ē' n	azidothymidine, Clonidine, pentamidine, thymidine.
3	-d ē' n	gabardine, Undine.
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Anagrams: Histidine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-i-i-n-s-t"
	-1 letter: histidin.
	-2 letters: indites, tineids.
	-3 letters: hinted, histed, indies, indite, inside, seniti, shined, teiids, teinds, theins, tidies, tineid.
	-4 letters: deist, dents, diets, dines, dints, dites, edits, heist, hents, hides, hinds, hints, indie, inset, intis, neist, nides, nisei, nites, nitid, senti, shend, shent, shied, shine, sited, snide, stein, stied, teiid, teind, tends, thein, thens, thine, thins.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-i-i-n-s-t"
	+1 letter: disinherit, histidines, rhinitides.
	+2 letters: disheriting, disinherits.
	+3 letters: diminishment, disinherited, disinhibited.
	+4 letters: diaphaneities, diminishments, disinheriting, distinguished, distinguishes, thioridazines.
	+5 letters: disinheritance.
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