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n. - A crystalline amino acid containing sulfur.

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Usage examples (33)
  • In the nucleus, unmodified methionine is used as the start residue.
  • Well no, I was asking people's opinions on why methionine is a nearly universal start codon.
  • I also just learned that methionine is resistant to cytosine deamination, and it sets the reading frame.
  • N-formyl-methionine is still used in the mitochondria (which is a direct descendant of prokaryotic symbiotes).
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