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What does valine mean?

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  1. (biochemistry) An essential amino acid 2-amino-3-methylbutanoic acid found in most animal proteins.
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The essential amino acids are histidine, tryptophan, threonine, valine, phenylalanine, leucine, methionine, lysine, and isoleusine.
Glycine and valine exhibited isotopic values outside the range of our sampled end members.
Contents of alanine, valine, isoleucine, and leucine were increased by anaerobic conditions.
Branched-chain amino acids are composed of leucine, isoleucine and valine, three of 18 amino acids that make up a complete protein.
The formyl termini have been patched onto the last valine residue in the sequence of each monomer.
Sickle cell anemia is caused by a mutation from a glutamate to a valine in the beta chain of the hemoglobin molecule.

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