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Definition: Proline |
ProlineNoun1. An amino acid that is found in many proteins (especially collagen). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A non-essential amino acid that is synthesized from glutamic acid. It is an essential component of collagen and is important for proper functioning of joints and tendons. (references) |
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In proteins, proline can act as a structural disruptor for α helices, and as a turning point in β sheets. Multiple prolines in a row can create a proline helix.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Proline."
Crosswords: Proline |
| Specialty definitions using "proline": Azetidinecarboxylic Acid ♦ Peptidylprolyl Isomerase, Procollagen, Proline Oxidase, Pyroglutamyl-Peptidase I, Pyrroline Carboxylate Reductases ♦ RNA, Transfer, Pro ♦ Tropocollagen. (references) |
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| "Proline" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.19% of the time. "Proline" is used about 21 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) | 76.19% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
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Expression using "proline": Proline Oxidase. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "proline": proline-rich. | |
Ending with "proline": d-proline, formyl-methionyl-leucyl-proline, lysyl-proline, Procollagen-Proline. | |
Containing "proline": Procollagen-Proline Dioxygenase. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "proline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 脯氨酸. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | prolin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | proline. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | proliini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | proline, acide pyrrolidine-carboxylique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Prolin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προλίνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prolina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olinepray prolina. (various references) prolina. (various references) prolin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "proline": prolines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "proline": hydroxyproline. (additional references) | |
Words containing "proline": hydroxyprolines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: neroli, orpine, pinole. | |
-2 letters: eloin, enrol, irone, liner, loner, loper, nerol, oiler, olein, opine, oriel, orpin, pelon, peril, plier, poler, prion, prole, prone, reoil, repin, ripen. | |
-3 letters: enol, inro, iron, leno, lien, lier, line, lino, lion, lipe, lire, loin, lone, lope, lore, lorn, noel, noil, noir, nope, nori, open, orle, pein, peon, peri. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: leporine, pelorian, prolines, replicon, terpinol. | |
+2 letters: deploring, exploring, interlope, loppering, necropoli, nonpareil, parhelion, piperonal, porcelain, prelusion, prolamine, pronuclei, purloined, purloiner, repletion, replicons, repolling, repulsion, terpineol, terpinols. | |
+3 letters: complainer, impersonal, inoperable, interloped, interloper, interlopes, nalorphine, necropolis, neutrophil, nonpareils, overplying, palindrome, panbroiled, perihelion, peritoneal, piperonals, pollenizer, pollinizer, porcelains, portliness, pratincole, preboiling, preclusion, precooling, prelection, prelusions, premolding, prolamines, propelling, purloiners, recoupling, repeopling, repletions, replotting, repulsions, rhizoplane, terpineols, trampoline. | |
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