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单词 ornithine
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ornithine

/ˈɔːnɪθiːn /
noun [mass noun] Biochemistry
An amino acid which is produced by the body and is important in protein metabolism.
  • Chemical formula: NH2(CH2)3CH(NH2)COOH.
About 50-percent of ingested arginine is rapidly converted in the body to ornithine, primarily by the enzyme arginase....
  • When your body doesn't digest protein completely, gut bacteria convert two of the amino acids in protein, arginine and ornithine, to compounds called polyamines.
  • This may occur in part as a result of pathologically elevated activity of arginase, an enzyme that hydrolyzes arginine to ornithine and urea.

Origin

Late 19th century: from ornitho- (with reference to a constituent found in bird excrement) + -ine4.

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