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  • noun Plural form of cysteine.

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Examples

  • The same thing is true at the molecular level, where amino acids known as cysteines are much more vulnerable to damage when single than when paired up with other cysteines.

    unknown title 2009

  • The same thing is true at the molecular level, where amino acids known as cysteines are much more vulnerable to damage when single than when paired up with other cysteines.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • The same thing is true at the molecular level, where amino acids known as cysteines are much more vulnerable to damage when single than when paired up with other cysteines.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • The same thing is true at the molecular level, where amino acids known as cysteines are much more vulnerable to damage when single than when paired up with other cysteines.

    unknown title 2009

  • Association with the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane also requires a polybasic domain proximal to the lipid modified cysteines

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010

  • Hamashima says that the target enzyme has a domain, close to chaetocin's binding site, which is full of amino acids called cysteines.

    innovations-report 2010

  • Mature CC-PLA2-1 and CC-PLA2-2 contain 121 and 120 amino acids, respectively, including 14 cysteines each and showed 83 % identity.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Raoudha Kessentini-Zouari 2010

  • A putative glycosylation site is underlined and cysteines are in black shading.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joris M. Koene et al. 2010

  • The most frequently acylated residues within proteins are lysines (as in histone N-acetylation) and cysteines (as in protein S-palmitoylation); serines seem to be seldom acylated.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • The most frequently acylated residues within proteins are lysines (as in histone N-acetylation) and cysteines (as in protein S-palmitoylation); serines seem to be seldom acylated.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Akihiko Ozawa et al. 2009

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