methionine

See also: méthionine

English

Structure diagram of methionine

Etymology

methyl +‎ thio- +‎ -n- +‎ -ine

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɪˈθʌɪəniːn/, /mɪˈθʌɪənɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɛˈθaɪəˌniːn/, /-ˌnaɪn/

Noun

methionine (countable and uncountable, plural methionines)

1. (biochemistry, organic chemistry) A lipotropic, sulphur-containing essential amino acid, C₅H₁₁NO₂S, found in most protein.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 253:

     The purpose was to make soya beans more healthy for those for whom they are a staple food by correcting soya beans' natural deficiency in a chemical called methionine.

Synonyms

• Met

Derived terms

• formyl methionine

Translations

amino acid

• Arabic: مِيثِيُونِين m (miṯiyunīn)
• Catalan: metionina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蛋氨酸 (zh) (dàn'ānsuān), 甲硫氨酸 (zh) (jiǎliú'ānsuān)

• Czech: methionin m
• Dutch: methionine (nl)
• Esperanto: metionino
• Finnish: metioniini
• French: méthionine (fr) f
• German: Methionin (de)
• Greek: μεθιονίνη f (methioníni)
• Hebrew: מתיונין
• Hungarian: metionin
• Indonesian: metionina
• Italian: metionina (it) f
• Japanese: メチオニン (mechionin)
• Korean: 메티오닌 (metionin)
• Latvian: metionīns
• Lithuanian: metioninas
• Luxembourgish: Methionin
• Norwegian: metionin m
• Occitan: metionina f
• Persian: متیونین (metiyonin)
• Polish: metionina (pl) f
• Portuguese: metionina f
• Romanian: metionină (ro) f
• Russian: метиони́н (ru) m (metionín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: метионин m

  Roman: metionin (sh) m

• Slovak: metionín m
• Spanish: metionina (es) f
• Swedish: metionin (sv) c
• Turkish: metiyonin
• Ukrainian: метіонін m (metionin)

Further reading

• methionine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia