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Cysteine (and Cystine)

27th Nov 202028th Nov 2020 Leave a comment

The “Cystine-Cysteine Problem” was a phrase used in 1972 by chroniclers of the history of the discovery of the amino acids to describe the puzzle surrounding these two species, and how they are incorporated into proteins.1 Cysteine is the name given the monomeric amino acid with a free thiol group, whereas cystine is the name… Continue reading Cysteine (and Cystine)

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