Arginine

/ˈɑɹɡɪniːn/

Synonyms for "arginine" (8 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(1 words)
amino acid

Strong matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
arginine residuearginine unit

Related words (4)

Noun(4 words)
l-argininenitric oxide precursorprotein arginineurea cycle substrate

Related word relations

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More general

4 entries
amino acidamino acid residueessential amino acidmetabolite

More specific

6 entries
D-arginineL-argininearginine-containing peptidearginine-rich regionnitric oxide precursorurea cycle substrate

Collocations

6 entries
arginine metabolismarginine side chainbasic amino acidessential amino acidnitric oxide synthase substrateurea cycle intermediate

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Since arginine is a normal component and plays an important role in the glucose transport mechanism, arginates can easily serve as acceptors for glucose.

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