noun
definition
An essential amino acid, C6H13NO2, isomeric with isoleucine, found in most animal proteins; it is essential for growth in children.
Examples of leucine in a Sentence
Whey protein isolate has approximately 50% more leucine than soy protein isolate.
Leucine regulates translation initiation of protein synthesis in skeletal muscle after exercise.
It appears, however, to be associated with a leucine transporter system across neuronal cell membranes and may increase intracellular GABA.
Whey protein contains more leucine than milk protein, egg protein and soy protein.
Current work The Cf-9 protein has 27 leucine rich repeats (LRRs ), which are divided in two blocks.
These are the essential aminos leucine, isoleucine, and valine.
Both viruses contain genes encoding proteins related to the basic leucine zipper (bZIP) family of transcription factors.
These are both missense mutations, changing the valine residue at 287 to leucine 19 or to methionine 20.