Definition & Meaning | English word DEHYDROALANINE
DEHYDROALANINE
Definitions of DEHYDROALANINE
- An uncommon amino acid found in peptides of microbial origin.
Number of letters
14
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using DEHYDROALANINE in a Sentence
- A variety of syntheses of lanthionine have been published including sulfur extrusion from cystine, ring opening of serine β-lactone, and hetero-conjugate addition of cysteine to dehydroalanine.
- Most amino acid residues are unreactive toward nucleophiles, but those containing dehydroalanine or some other dehydroamino acids are exceptions.
- Lantibiotics are a class of polycyclic peptide antibiotics that contain the characteristic thioether amino acids lanthionine or methyllanthionine, as well as the unsaturated amino acids dehydroalanine, and 2-aminoisobutyric acid.
- The external aldimine is displaced by the nucleophilic attack of the lysine, regenerating the catalytically active internal aldimine and releasing dehydroalanine.
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