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Isoleucine

Definition: Isoleucine

Isoleucine

Noun

1. An essential amino acid found in proteins; isomeric with leucine.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Isoleucine

DomainDefinitions

Health

An essential branched-chain amino acid found in many proteins. It is an isomer of LEUCINE. It is important in hemoglobin synthesis and regulation of blood sugar and energy levels. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Isoleucine

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Isoleucine is one of the 20 most common natural amino acids, and coded for in DNA. Its chemical composition is identical to that of leucine, but the arrangement of its atoms is slightly different resulting in different properties. Nutritionally, in humans, isoleucine is an essential amino acid.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Isoleucine."

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Crosswords: Isoleucine

Specialty definitions using "isoleucine": 2-Acetolactate MutaseAcetolactate SynthaseIsoleucine-tRNA LigasePeptide PHIRNA, Transfer, IleThreonine Dehydratase. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Isoleucine

"Isoleucine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Isoleucine" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Isoleucine

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "isoleucine": Isoleucine-tRNA, Isoleucine-tRNA Ligase.

Ending with "isoleucine": 1-Sarcosine-8-Isoleucine.

Containing "isoleucine": 1-Sarcosine-8-Isoleucine Angiotensin II.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Isoleucine

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

l isoleucine

15

isoleucine

13
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Modern Translation: Isoleucine

Language Translations for "isoleucine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

isoleucin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

isoleucine. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

isoleusiini. (various references)

   

French

  

isoleucine. (various references)

   

German

  

Isoleucin. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ισολευκίνη. (various references)

   

Italian

  

isoleucina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isoleucineay

   

Portuguese

  

isoleucina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

isoleucina. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

isoleucin. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Isoleucine

Derivations

Words beginning with "isoleucine": isoleucines. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Isoleucine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-l-n-o-s-u"

-2 letters: cineoles, isocline, leucines, silicone.

-3 letters: cineole, cineols, coulees, counsel, cuisine, elision, elusion, enclose, eosinic, inclose, isoline, leucine, leucins, license, lionise, oleines, selenic, senecio, silence, silicon, unclose, uncoils.

-4 letters: cineol, clines, clones, clonus, coleus, colies, colins, conies, consul, cosine, coulee, coulis, cousin, eloins, enisle, enolic, ensile, ensoul, eosine, icones, incise, incuse, insole, insoul, ionics.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-l-n-o-s-u"
 

+1 letter: isoleucines.

 

+3 letters: deliciousness, dinucleotides, nickeliferous.

 

+4 letters: bioluminescent, felicitousness, licentiousness, radiolucencies, ribonucleoside, trinucleotides.

 

+5 letters: bioluminescence, conceptualities, deliciousnesses, inconsequential, maliciousnesses, ribonucleosides, ribonucleotides.

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Alternative Orthography: Isoleucine


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 73 6F 6C 65 75 63 69 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    ...    ---    .-..    .    ..-    -.-.    ..    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01110011 01101111 01101100 01100101 01110101 01100011 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#115 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#117 &#99 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0073 006F 006C 0065 0075 0063 0069 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43858178718769758071

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Isoleucine"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsetanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutossuomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiontysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, grek

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningZweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, sueco, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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