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Cysteine = found in high protein foods
-Cysteine, mainly the l-enantiomer, is a precursor in the food, pharmaceutical and personal-care industries. One of the largest applications is the production of flavors. For example, the reaction of cysteine with sugars in a Maillard reaction yields meat flavors
Cysteine is also used as a processing aid for baking
The majority of l-cysteine is obtained industrially by hydrolysis of animal materials, such as poultry feathers or hog hair. Despite widespread belief otherwise, little evidence shows that human hair is used as a source material and its use is explicitly banned in the European Union.
Alanine = found in high protein foods.
Beta-alanine is commonly used by mouth for improving athletic performance and exercise capacity, building lean muscle mass, and improving physical functioning in the elderly.
Lysine = high protein foods
Lysine plays several roles in humans, most importantly proteinogenesis, but also in the crosslinking of collagen polypeptides, uptake of essential mineral nutrients, and in the production of carnitine, which is key in fatty acid metabolism.
Glutamic Acid = protein rich foods
The glutamate neurotransmitter plays the principal role in neural activation.[5] This anion is also responsible for the savory flavor (umami) of certain foods, and used in glutamate flavorings such as MSG.
Soo. I don't know wtf i am talking about lol. just trying to figure out what happens if you take words and look at their amino-acid correlations.
The letters are not random.
Some single letter codes that aren’t the amino acid’s starting letter actually make sense when viewed from certain angles. Here’s the list starting with the bloomin’ obvious:
G — Glycine
A — Alanine
V — Valine
L — Leucine
I — Isoleucine
P — Proline
S — Serine
T — Threonine
C — Cysteine
H — Histidine
M — Methionine
Some amino acids have a letter that alludes to how the name is spoken rather than written:
F — Phenylalanine (starts with /f/)
R — Arginine (the first syllable could be are or the pronunciation of the letter R)
N — Asparagine[1]
One amino acid is labelled by its second letter (two if you count arginine above):
Y — Tyrosine
A few were labelled with letters close to their starting letter because the actual starting letter is taken:
K — Lysine (L is already leucine)
E — Glutamate (F and G were taken; but so were H and I. E is at least a letter of the name)
D — Aspartate (Basically a shorthand version of E, glutamate)
Which leaves us with tryptophan and glutamine. Glutamine is another really stretchy one:
Q — Glutamine (C and G was taken but Q is round on the left just like a G. Totally obvious?)
And finally, for tryptophan, they decided to take the actual shape of the molecule. You don’t see it? Here it is:
W — Tryptophan The W in tryptophan
Actually, perhaps it’s a mere coincidence as in they tossed a coin with the letters left; for both glutamine and tryptophan. But I like this explanation.