How to Use amino acid in a Sentence

amino acid

noun

• Isoleucine is one of the three branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs).
  — Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 26 Nov. 2024
• The amino acid-spiked blend helps those with hair loss, too.
  — ELLE, 24 Dec. 2022
• Leucine, like valine and isoleucine, is a branched-chain amino acid.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2022
• And life can get by with only one codon for each amino acid.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 1 May 2018
• Since there are 20 amino acids, this produced a 20-tone scale.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 June 2019
• The building blocks of protein are known as amino acids.
  — Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 10 Jan. 2025
• The amino acids missing from beans are found in rice and vice versa.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 9 Nov. 2023
• Protein is made up of amino acids, most of which the body can produce on its own.
  — Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Ld, Health, 21 Jan. 2025
• Aside from squalane, this lip balm also boasts amino acids.
  — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 21 June 2024
• There were also traces of an amino acid — glycine — adding weight to the idea that comets could be source of the building blocks of life.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 1 Oct. 2018
• Rosetta caught whiffs of glycine, one of the amino acid building blocks of proteins.
  — Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
• Fear of the dark is an arrangement of fifteen amino acids.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• That was true for mutations that changed an amino acid.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 June 2022
• As starchy foods heat up, their sugars and amino acids react.
  — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
• Of the 20 amino acids out there, nine are essential, meaning your body can’t make them.
  — Lauren Manaker, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• It’s also spiked with a multi-amino acid blend to strengthen strands and boost body.
  — Celia Shatzman, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2022
• So chemists had to alter the hormone’s building blocks — a chain of amino acids — to find a more durable variant.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Both versions of the gene encode exactly the same amino acid.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 June 2022
• This letter shows the original amino acid in the protein.
  — Sarah Toy, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2022
• Green tea is a rich source of the amino acid L-theanine, with tea being the only food source of L-theanine.
  — Amy Fischer M.s., R.d., Good Housekeeping, 8 Nov. 2022
• Six codons, for example, code for the amino acid serine.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 June 2021
• In the second twin, some of her cells will have a four base pair deletion, which will cause a short tail of 10 random amino acids.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2018
• Proteins are long strands of amino acids, found in meat and enriched plant foods like tofu.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 25 July 2023
• The test offered a way to detect high levels of phenylalanine, the amino acid that builds up in PKU.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
• The Nature study examined the same process in the amino acid histidine.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Chickpeas and milk are a source of tryptophan, an amino acid that can help to improve sleep.
  — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
• Bd unspools the skin's proteins and feasts on the resulting spaghetti of amino acids.
  — Matthew Fisher, National Geographic, 10 May 2018
• Our bodies need nine amino acids—the building blocks of protein—to make muscle.
  — National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019
• Peptides: These amino acid fragments are essential building blocks for hair growth.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2025
• Not to mention, collagen amino acids, 2% niacinamide, three types of ceramides, and botanical oils.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025