GLYCINE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Asiatic erect or sprawling herbs: soya bean

Synonyms:

genus Glycine; Glycine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Glycine" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Glycine"):

Glycine max; soja; soja bean; soy; soya; soya bean; soybean; soybean plant (erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia)

Holonyms ("Glycine" is a member of...):

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The simplest amino acid found in proteins and the principal amino acid in sugar cane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("glycine" is a kind of...):

amino acid; aminoalkanoic acid (organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group)

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This allele, which encodes dihydrofolate reductase protein, plays a role in the de novo synthesis of glycine, purines and thymidylic acid.

(DHFR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The glycolytic intermediate 3-phosphoglycerate is the starting point for the biosynthesis of serine and glycine.

(Biosynthesis of Glycine and Serine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In individuals with this condition, glycine accumulates to toxic levels in the body due to a lack of other mechanisms of metabolism.

(Catabolic Pathways for Alanine, Glycine, Serine, Cysteine, Tryptophan, and Threonine, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The primary bile acids, cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid, are synthesized in the liver and conjugated with taurine or glycine before secretion via bile into the intestine.

(Bile Acid Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

A tri-Fab bispecific monoclonal antibody (BiMoAb) divalent for the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and monovalent for histamine-succinyl-glycine (HSG) peptide-hapten.

(Anti-CEA/Anti-HSG Bispecific Monoclonal Antibody TF2, NCI Thesaurus)

The team tracked the brain’s usage of glucose by measuring ratios of the amino acids serine, glycine and alanine to glucose, allowing them to assess rates of the key steps of glycolysis.

(Higher brain glucose levels may mean more severe Alzheimer’s, National Institutes of Health)

In 2015, medical researchers in India held methylene cyclopropyl-glycine (MCPG) — a toxic phytochemical found in the lychee fruit — responsible for outbreaks of AES in India’s Bihar state.

(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)

N-myristoylation, catalyzed by N-myristoyltransferase, is the amide modification of proteins by the addition of a myristoyl group to an N-terminal glycine residue.

(Myristic Acylation Site, NCI Thesaurus)

A process that involves the binding of any member of the group of amino acid neurotransmitters, including glutamate, aspartate, serine, glycine and gamma-aminobutyric acid, to their respective receptors.

(Amino Acid Receptor Binding, NCI Thesaurus)

A tripeptide comprised of three amino acids (cysteine, glutamic acid, and glycine) present in most mammalian tissue.