selenocysteine (English, noun)
expansion: selenocysteine (countable and uncountable, plural selenocysteines)
Senses:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A naturally-occurring amino acid, present in several enzymes, whose structure is that of cysteine but with the sulfur atom replaced by one of selenium
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: selenocysteines
tags: plural