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Definition: Alanine |
AlanineNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
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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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| AlAt | English | Alanine aminotransferase | N/A |
| ALAT | French | Alanine aminotransférase | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Alanine |
| English words defined with "alanine": Lactamide, Lactimide. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "alanine": Alanine Racemase, Alanine Transaminase, Alanine-tRNA Ligase ♦ gamma-Glutamylcyclotransferase ♦ RNA, Transfer, Ala ♦ Saralasin. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 47.06% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 47.06% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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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| 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 |
alanine aminotransferase | 44 |
alanine | 31 |
l alanine | 31 |
alanine transaminase | 5 |
beta alanine | 5 |
alanine amino transferase | 3 |
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| 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 alanina. (various references) alanina. (various references) alanin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
| 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) |
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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 61 6E 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .- -. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01100001 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l a n i n e |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35786780758071 |
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