Where does “cysteine” come from?
cysteine (English) comes from English cystine, from Ancient Greek κύστις, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kewH- — to cover, bedeck; cover.
cysteine (English): A sulphur-containing nonessential amino acid...
Definitions
- A sulphur-containing nonessential amino acid...
Ancestry of “cysteine”, step by step
Words derived from “cysteine”
- homocysteine
- acetylcysteine
- hyperhomocysteinemia
- selenocysteine
- cysteinyl
- glutamylcysteine
- cysteic
- homocysteinemia
- cysteinate
- nitrosocysteine
- hyperhomocysteinemic
- dicysteine
- thiocysteine
- isoprenylcysteine
- cysteinal
- cysteineless
- dacisteine
- intercysteine
- mecysteine
- polycysteine
- tetracysteine
- hyperhomocysteine
- cysteinylation
- homocysteinase