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dityrosine

dityrosine noun: a dimer of tyrosine typically produced by oxidation.

Noun

dityrosine (uncountable)

  1. A dimer of tyrosine typically produced by oxidation
    • Action of chloraminated oxidants, mainly hypochlorous acid and chloramines, produced by myeloperoxidase, forms dityrosine containing cross-linked protein products known as AOPP and is also considered as one of the biomarkers to estimate the degree of oxidative modifications of proteins [ 36, 45 ].2015 August 9, R. Vani et al., “Prospects of Vitamin C as an Additive in Plasma of Stored Blood”, in Advances in Hematology, volume 2015, →DOI

Origin of dityrosine

From di- + tyrosine.

Words formed from dityrosine

Questions about dityrosine

What does dityrosine mean?
Dityrosine means a dimer of tyrosine typically produced by oxidation.
What part of speech is dityrosine?
Dityrosine is a noun.

Words near dityrosine in the dictionary

  1. dittying
  2. ditungsten
  3. ditype
  4. ditypes
  5. ditypic
  6. dityrosine
  7. ditz
  8. ditzel
  9. ditzels
  10. ditzes
  11. ditzier

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