lysopinen.
/ˈlʌɪsəʊpiːn/ Biochemistry.
An opine, C9H18N2O4, synthesized by plant cells infected by some tumour-inducing plasmids present in the crown gall pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Cf. nopaline n.
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1960 K. Biemann et al. in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 40 370 We propose the name lysopine for the new amino acid..as it is the lysine analogue of octopine.., a characteristic component of octopus muscle.
1972 Plant Physiol. 49 135/1 Nopaline-producing tumors induced by strain T-37 responded to lysopine and octopine as well as to nopaline.
1978 Nature 9 Feb. 570/2 Two other opines, lysopine and octopinic acid, which are synthesised concomitantly with octopine in crown-gall cells.
1988 Ann. Bot. 62 441 Lysopine and nopaline dehydrogenase were not detected in any of the selected protoclones.
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