Threonine

Definition: Threonine

Threonine

Noun

1. A colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition.

Domain	Definitions
Health	An essential amino acid occurring naturally in the L-form, which is the active form. It is found in eggs, milk, gelatin, and other proteins. (references)
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Threonine is one of the 20 most common natural amino acids on Earth. Nutritionally, in humans, threonine is also an essential amino acid.

"Threonine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Threonine" is used about 2 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)	100%	2	245,945

Expression using "threonine": Threonine Dehydratase. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "threonine": threonine-rich, Threonine-tRNA, Threonine-tRNA Ligase.
	Ending with "threonine": serine-threonine.
	Containing "threonine": Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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 "threonine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		threonin. (various references)

Dutch		treonine, threonine. (various references)

Finnish		treoniini. (various references)

French		thréonine. (various references)

German		Threonin. (various references)

Greek		θρεονίνη. (various references)

Italian		treonina. (various references)

Pig Latin		eoninethray

Portuguese		treonina. (various references)

Spanish		treonina. (various references)

Swedish		treonin. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "threonine": threonines. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-n-n-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: enthrone, hereinto, inherent, inthrone.
	-2 letters: enteron, heroine, interne, intoner, neither, tenoner, ternion, therein, thereon, thinner, tinhorn.
	-3 letters: either, entire, ethion, herein, hereon, hereto, heriot, heroin, hetero, hinter, hornet, inhere, intern, intone, intron, nether, norite, nother, orient, rennet, retine, tenner, theine, throne, tinner, tonier, tonner, triene.
	-4 letters: enter, ether, heron, honer, inert, inner, inter, intro.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-n-n-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: incoherent, rhinestone, threonines.
	+2 letters: antiheroine, rhinestoned, rhinestones.
	+3 letters: antiheroines, ethnocentric, heterodyning, hypertension, incoherently, nitromethane, reenthroning, technetronic, thorninesses.
	+4 letters: ethnocentrism, hypertensions, nitromethanes, nonhereditary, norethindrone.
	+5 letters: ethnocentrisms, foreshortening, hyperextension, newsworthiness, nontheoretical, nontherapeutic, nonthreatening, norethindrones, noteworthiness, overtightening, phenobarbitone, synchroneities, unworthinesses.
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