Argn.
/ˌeɪɑːˈdʒiː/, U.S. /ˌeɪˌɑrˈdʒi/ Biochemistry.
The amino acid arginine.
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1912 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 10 29 Letting D represent the total non-amino nitrogen of the bases..and Arg represent the arginine nitrogen,..we have the formula: Histidine N = 3/ 2(D - 3/ 4Arg.)]
1945 E. Brand et al. in Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 67 1530/1 We propose to use as symbols, whenever feasible, the first 3 letters of the amino acids: e.g., glycine residue, Gly; arginine residue, Arg.
1965 A. R. Peacocke & R. B. Drysdale Molecular Basis Heredity xii. 144 Certain discrepancies remain, notably for the changes asp*→ser, arg→gly, thr→met.
2004 Nature 29 July 522/2 Their mass-spectrometry approach can detect 800 yoctomoles (800 × 10−24 moles) of des-Arg9-bradykinin.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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