How to Use tyrosine in a Sentence

tyrosine

noun

• But tyrosine is just one of the 20 amino acids normally found in protein.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• His tyrosine is part of a long chain that makes a protein, also called XIAP.
  — Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2010
• There’s potential to raise dopamine levels from foods that are high in tyrosine.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2022
• There is 200 mg of tyrosine, which is best known as a mood enhancer and cognitive enhancer.
  — Matt Cooper, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• The drug belongs to a large class of cancer drugs called tyrosine kinase inhibitors, the fruits of research by Tony Hunter at the Salk Institute four decades ago.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019
• One way is to eat foods that are high in tyrosine, such as avocados, bananas, and dark chocolate.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• Physicians had indeed moved their patients over to one of the newer tyrosine kinase inhibitors like Tasigna.
  — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• You may then be given tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), targeted therapy drugs that send signals to the cells to stop that growth.
  — Gagandeep Brar, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2023
• But in Nicholas, the one-letter change produces an entirely different amino acid, tyrosine.
  — Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2010
• There’s no technological reason why a researcher couldn’t have switched the codons for one amino acid, like tyrosine, into the codons for another one, like alanine.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Each scoop delivers 10g of type I and type III collagen, along with a full amino acid profile, including leucine, tyrosine, and aspartic acid.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
• In the case of CML, the tyrosine kinase produced by the Philadelphia chromosome scoffs at natural inhibitors.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2010
• Sotyktu and the Nimbus drug are both inhibitors of an immune system protein called tyrosine kinase 2.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• To fight the cancer, doctors use a form of targeted therapy, called tyrosine kinase inhibitor pills, which blocks the faulty signals telling cancer cells to multiply.
  — Grace Wade, Health.com, 29 Nov. 2021
• Maintaining adequate levels of tyrosine in the body helps make the dieting process much easier to handle.
  — Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2023
• This mutation makes the cave fish unable to metabolize the amino acid tyrosine to make the pigment melanin, resulting in their colorless appearance.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
• For his part, Hunter performed research that led to an entirely new category of cancer drugs called tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2019
• Hunter made his reputation with the 1979 discovery of how enzymes called tyrosine kinases can cause cancer.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Other types of cancer treatment, such as immunotherapies and tyrosine kinase inhibitors, were not associated with a greater risk of death among the patients.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 28 May 2020
• Except, of course, rather than leveraging the byproducts of alcoholic fermentation, their yeast spit out tyrosine, an amino acid precursor to opioids.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2015
• Such tyrosine kinase inhibitors constitute a large class of cancer drugs, made possible by the research of Salk Institute scientist Tony Hunter.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• Choanoflagellates have genes for tyrosine kinases, enzymes that, in complex animals, help control the functions of specialized cells, such as insulin secretion in the pancreas.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2018
• Both monoclonal antibodies and tyrosine kinases now provide the basis for many new medicines coming to market.
  — Fred D. Ledley, STAT, 6 June 2018
• The class of cancer drugs that block phosphorylation activity are called tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Plants modify tyrosine by adding other molecules to create an enormous array of useful substances.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• Other cancer therapies, such as a class of drugs known as Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors, may be protective and are being tested in coronavirus patients without cancer.
  — Emily Woodruff, NOLA.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• In addition, protein-rich foods, like eggs and Greek yogurt, contain tyrosine and may enhance cognitive performance and even creativity, studies show.
  — Caitlin Carlson, Women's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Each capsule is loaded with rhodiola rosea, B vitamins, L-tyrosine, huperzine A, and Bacopa monnieri.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
• Hunter Focus leverages amino acid compounds like L-theanine, citicoline, and L-tyrosine to enhance focus and mental concentration.
  — Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
• Turning Point’s top drug candidate, repotrectinib, has the potential to be a best-in-class tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting drivers of non-small cell lung cancer and other advanced solid tumors, according to Bristol.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2022

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024