Sentences with phrase «different amino acids act»
Different amino acids act as neurotransmitters, or may serve as precursors for these chemical messengers.
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It is also helped by transfer RNA (tRNA), a collection of 20 special molecules that act as carriers for the 20 different individual amino acids.
Scientists have known that, in organisms ranging in complexity from yeast to humans, different kinds of cellular stress — such as a backlog of unfolded proteins, DNA - damaging UV light, a shortage of the amino acid building blocks needed to make protein, viral infection, iron deficiency — trigger different enzymes to act downstream to switch off eIF2 alpha.
Amino acids have several different purposes in our lives, from forming the building blocks of proteins and acting as neurotransmitters in our brains, to being used in the manufacture of fertilizer, biodegradable plastics and certain drugs.