NOUN
- a crystalline amino acid found in proteins (especially keratin); discovered in bladder stones
How To Use cystine In A Sentence
- Zinc is required for the incorporation of cystine into keratin.
- They fix nitrogen and so contain high quality protein, including the essential amino acids methionine and cystine.
- Decomposition of urine containing cystine or pus will have the odor of rotten eggs.
- In particular, protein fractionation is likely to turn up fractions with methionine and cystine levels even greater than fonio's already amazingly high average. 3. Fonio (Acha)
- Stones can be composed of calcium, oxalate, urate, cystine, xanthine, phosphate, or all of these.
- This occurs in cystine, which is known from the work of Count K.A.H. Mörner as a component of the protein molecule. Albrecht Kossel - Nobel Lecture
- The proteins of soyabean yields all essential amino acids in adequate amounts, except methionine and cystine.
- Once inside a cell, cystine is rapidly reduced to cysteine that, as a precursor of GSH, undergoes GSH synthesis.
- In his Edible Leaves of the Tropics he adds that the leaves are incomparable as a source of the sulfur-containing amino acids methionine and cystine, which are often in short supply. 4: Multipurpose trees
- However, cystine crystals in the cornea are not usually detectable in the first year.
