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ethionine

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ethionine [e′thīยทə‚nēn]
(biochemistry)
C5H13O2N An amino acid that is the ethyl analog of and the biological antagonist of methionine.


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Severe diarrhea can damage or destroy these beneficial bacteria, allowing harmful bacteria to take over producing by-products like ammonia, purines and ethionine, which can eventually cause colon cancer.
Also disclosed are methods for selecting transformed plant cells using ethionine and CGS as the selection agent and marker gene respectively.
Induction of pancreatic inflammation after ethionine treatment in rats promoted the transformation of benign pancreatic acinar tumors into malignant tumors, and this transformation was associated with the appearance of mutated p53 protein (Bednarz and Olewinski 2002).
 
 
 
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