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Definition: Leucine |
LeucineNoun1. A white crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins that is essential for nutrition; obtained by the hydrolysis of most dietary proteins. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | An essential branched-chain amino acid important for hemoglobin formation. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Leucine is one of the 20 most common amino acids on Earth, and coded for by DNA. Its chemical composition is identical to that of isoleucine, but its atoms are arranged differently resulting in different properties. Nutritionally, in humans, leucine is an essential amino acid.
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Crosswords: Leucine |
| English words defined with "leucine": isoleucine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "leucine": 2-Isopropylmalate Synthase ♦ beta-Endorphin ♦ CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins, Cycloleucine ♦ Enkephalin, Leucine ♦ Homoserine Dehydrogenase ♦ leucine zipper, Leucine Zippers, Leucine-tRNA Ligase, Leucyl Aminopeptidase, Leucyl-beta-Naphthylamidase ♦ Pepsin A ♦ RNA, Transfer, Leu. (references) |
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| "Leucine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 67.19% of the time. "Leucine" 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) | 67.19% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 32.81% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 64 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "leucine": leucine zipper ♦ Leucine Zippers. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "leucine": Leucine-2-Alanine, Leucine-co, Leucine-tRNA, Leucine-tRNA Ligase. | |
Ending with "leucine": helix-loop-helix-leucine, l-leucine. | |
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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 |
leucine | 43 |
l leucine | 13 |
leucine zipper | 3 |
leucine aminopeptidase | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "leucine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 白氨酸. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | leucin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | leucine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | leusiini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | leucine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Leucin (leucin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λευκίνη (leucin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | leucina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eucinelay leucina. (various references) leucina. (various references) leucin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "leucine": leucines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "leucine": isoleucine. (additional references) | |
Words containing "leucine": isoleucines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: leucin, nuclei. | |
-2 letters: cline, niece, uncle. | |
-3 letters: ceil, cine, clue, lice, lien, lieu, line, luce, lune, nice, unci. | |
-4 letters: cee, cel, cue, ecu, eel, ice, lee, lei, leu, lie, lin, nee, nil. | |
-5 letters: el, en, in, li, ne, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: leucines, pulicene. | |
+2 letters: euclidean, fluencies, influence, lenticule, licensure, lucencies, luminesce, virulence. | |
+3 letters: binucleate, divulgence, ebullience, ebulliency, ecumenical, enunciable, geniculate, indulgence, ineducable, influenced, influences, insecurely, isoleucine, lenticules, leukopenic, licensures, liquescent, luminesced, luminesces, nucleoside, nucleotide, opulencies, sublicense, unlicensed, virulences. | |
+4 letters: affluencies, becudgeling, binucleated, contumelies, curlinesses, delinquency, denticulate, divulgences, ebulliences, enucleating, enucleation, equivalence, equivalency, eugenically, exultancies, fluorescein, geniculated, indulgences, ineffectual, ineluctable, inexcusable, intercouple, isoleucines, lieutenancy, lucidnesses, luckinesses, luminescent, multicenter, multiscreen, neuroleptic, nucleophile, nucleosides, nucleotides, oecumenical, petulancies, quiescently, reinoculate, relicensure, sublicensed, sublicenses, ulcerogenic, undecidable, unexcitable, uninflected, uninucleate, unreclaimed, unselective, virulencies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 75 63 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . ..- -.-. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01110101 01100011 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e u c i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0075 0063 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)46718769758071 |
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