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Definition: Tyrosine |
TyrosineNoun1. An amino acid found in most proteins; a precursor of several hormones. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A non-essential amino acid. In animals it is synthesized from phenylalanine. It is also the precursor of epinephrine, thyroid hormones, and melanin. (references) |
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Tyrosine (from the Greek tyros, for "cheese", where it was first discovered) is one of the 20 amino acids that are used by cells to synthesize proteins. It plays a key role in signal transduction, since it can be tagged with a phosphate group by protein kinases (phosphorylated) to alter the functionality and/or activity of enzymes. Another important biological function of tyrosine is as a precursor in the synthesis of the thyroid hormone, thyroxin.
Chemical properties:
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Crosswords: Tyrosine |
| English words defined with "tyrosine": alcapton, alkapton ♦ di-iodotyrosine ♦ homogentisic acid ♦ iodotyrosine ♦ mono-iodotyrosine ♦ phenylalanine, phenylketonuria, PKU ♦ tyramine, tyrosinemia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tyrosine": 1-Methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ♦ 2-Dehydro-3-Deoxyphosphoheptonate Aldolase ♦ Annexin II ♦ Catecholamines, cdc25 Phosphatase ♦ Ficain ♦ Genes, abl, Genes, src ♦ Lactoperoxidase ♦ Methyltyrosines ♦ p120 GTPase Activating Protein, Phosphotyrosine, Prephenate Dehydrogenase, Protein-Tyrosine Kinase, Protein-Tyrosine-Phosphatase, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-abl ♦ Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor, Receptor, IGF Type 1, Receptor, IGF Type 2, Receptor, Insulin, Receptors, Catecholamine, Receptors, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Receptors, Somatomedin, RNA, Transfer, Tyr ♦ src Homology Domains ♦ Tyrosine Phenol-Lyase, Tyrosine-tRNA Ligase, Tyrphostins. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The medium consists of Yeast Extract, Cysteine, and Ferric Pyrophosphate with, or without the addition of D or L Tyrosine, or D or L Phenylalanine. Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Instrumentation that quantitatively measures Phe and tyrosine concentrations is beneficial in the early positive identification of PKU, while reducing the incidence of false-positive results. (references) | |
Fluorometric analysis and tandem mass spectrometry are quantitative, can be automated, and produce fewer false positives than BIA. Tandem mass spectrometry has the ability to simultaneously obtain tyrosine levels that can be used to assist in the interpretation of Phe levels and the identification of numerous other metabolic disorders on a single sample. (references) | ||
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| "Tyrosine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Tyrosine" is used about 64 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) | 93.75% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 64 | N/A |
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Expressions using "tyrosine": Lymphocyte Specific Protein Tyrosine Kinase p56(lck) ♦ Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase ♦ Tyrosine Decarboxylase ♦ tyrosine hydroxylase ♦ tyrosine kinase inhibitor ♦ Tyrosine Phenol-Lyase ♦ Tyrosine Transaminase. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "tyrosine": tyrosine-kinases, tyrosine-specific, Tyrosine-tRNA, Tyrosine-tRNA Ligase. | |
Ending with "tyrosine": protein-tyrosine. | |
Containing "tyrosine": Protein-Tyrosine Kinase, Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases. | |
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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 "tyrosine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 酚基乙氨酸. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tyrosin (skin tyrosine), hudtyrosin (skin tyrosine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tyrosine (skin tyrosine), huidtyrosine (skin tyrosine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tyrosiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tyrosine cutanée (skin tyrosine), tyrosine (skin tyrosine), Tyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tyroson (C9H11NO3, skin tyrosine), Tyrosin (C9H11NO3, skin tyrosine), Tyr (C9H11NO3, skin tyrosine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τυροσίνη δέρματος (C9H11NO3, skin tyrosine), τυροσίνη (C9H11NO3, skin tyrosine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tirosina (C9H11NO3, skin tyrosine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yrosinetay tirosina (C9H11NO3, skin tyrosine). (various references) tirosina (C9H11NO3, skin tyrosine). (various references) tyrosin (C9H11NO3, skin tyrosine), paraoxifenylalanin (C9H11NO3, skin tyrosine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tyrosine": tyrosines. (additional references) | |
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"Tyrosine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pyrozine, teosinte, tryosine, tyrosinase, tyrosines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: norites, oestrin, orients, stonier. | |
-2 letters: estrin, inerts, insert, inters, intros, irones, nestor, niters, nitery, nitres, nitros, norite, nosier, noters, orient, oyster, resiny, rosiny, senior, sentry, sinter, sortie, stoner, stoney, storey, tenors, tensor, toners, tonier, tories, toyers, triens, trines, triose, trones. | |
-3 letters: entry, eosin, inert, inset, inter, intro, irone, irons, irony, neist, nerts, niter. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: nervosity, oystering, seniority, tyrosines. | |
+2 letters: arytenoids, destroying, erythrosin, generosity, insobriety, oysterings, propensity, roystering, stationery, thyroxines, tyrosinase. | |
+3 letters: antileprosy, countryside, courtesying, decryptions, designatory, encryptions, erythrosine, erythrosins, hypertonias, keystroking, overstaying, periphytons, personality, proselyting, pyroxenites, questionary, retinoscopy, sovereignty, strenuosity, tensiometry, trichogynes, trypsinogen, tyrocidines, tyrosinases. | |
+4 letters: arsenopyrite, attorneyship, countrysides, cybernations, dehydrations, densitometry, dispensatory, erythrosines, ethnohistory, hypertension, intercessory, intersensory, intersociety, multisensory, nonsymmetric, phenocrystic, polycentrism, polyneuritis, protensively, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, rehydrations, rehypnotizes, secretionary, sensitometry, skyrocketing, stereotyping, storytelling, streptolysin, streptomycin, synchroneity, trypsinogens, ungenerosity. | |
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