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THREONINE

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Meaning:

A colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("threonine" is a kind of...):

essential amino acid (an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet)

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An orally bioavailable inhibitor of the serine/threonine protein kinase Akt (protein kinase B) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Afuresertib, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in both cytokine signaling and serine/threonine phosphorylation.

(Activin Receptor Type-1C, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes MAP kinase interacting serine/threonine kinase 1 protein, is involved in both cellular proliferation and the mitogen activated kinase pathway.

(MKNK1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

An Akt enzyme is a type of serine/threonine protein kinase.

(Akt, NCI Dictionary)

This protein is involved in serine/threonine phosphorylation and modulation of JNK signal pathways.

(Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinase Kinase Kinase 4, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally bioavailable inhibitor of the serine/threonine protein kinase AKT (protein kinase B) isoforms 1 and 2 (AKT1/2) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(AKT 1/2 Inhibitor BAY1125976, NCI Thesaurus)

An orally bioavailable inhibitor of the serine/threonine protein kinase AKT (protein kinase B) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(AKT Inhibitor ARQ 092, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in cell cycle arrest, serine/threonine phosphorylation and the MAP kinase signaling pathway.

(Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 12, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in serine/threonine phosphorylation and the MAP kinase signaling pathway.

(Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 11, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in serine/threonine phosphorylation, cytokine-dependent and stress-activated signaling and transcriptional regulation.

(Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 10, NCI Thesaurus)