proline
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of proline
First recorded in 1900–05; alteration of pyrrolidine
Example Sentences
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As proline and collagen are widely available and don't rely on chains of hydrocarbons like previous methods, the team hope to sustainably scale up their current production in the lab.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
I have been taking niacin for years along with vitamin C and the amino acids lysine and proline.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
For example, CCU, CCC, CCA, and CCG are all codons for proline.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
All they had to do was change two of more than 1,000 building blocks in the protein into a compound called proline.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2021
Nothing is known, however, of the process by which the more complicated closed-ring amino-acid compounds, such as proline, histidine, or tryptophane, are synthetized.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
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