Definition of Tryptophans

1. tryptophan [n] - See also: tryptophan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tryptophans

tryptophan
tryptophan-tRNA ligase
tryptophan 2-methyltransferase
tryptophan 2-monooxygenase
tryptophan C-methyltransferase
tryptophan decarboxylase
tryptophan desmolase
tryptophan hydroxylase
tryptophan oxygenase
tryptophan pyrrolase
tryptophan synthase
tryptophan synthetase
tryptophanase
tryptophane
tryptophanes
tryptophans (current term)
tryptophanuria
tryptophanyl
tryptophyl
tryptophyls
trysail
trysails
tryscoring
trysquare
trysquares
tryst
tryste
trysted
tryster
trysters

Literary usage of Tryptophans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Food and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1917)
"... tryptophans — which are essential for the building up of human protein, are not contained in it. As a source of heat and energy, it is equal to protein ..."

2. Oxidations and Reductions in the Animal Body by Henry Drysdale Dakin (1922)
"COOH NV It was thought that light might be thrown on the accuracy of the above presentation by the examination of the fate of substituted tryptophans. ..."

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