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Amino acid substitution

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-000305

The replacement of one or more amino acids in a protein with another. If a functionally equivalent amino acid is substituted, the protein may retain wild-type activity. Substitution may also diminish or eliminate protein function.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-000305
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoMutation; Protein structure; Missense mutation; Protein engineering; Structure-activity relationships
TranslationsSpanish: sustitución de aminoácidos
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-000305",
  "term": "Amino acid substitution",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "The replacement of one or more amino acids in a protein with another. If a functionally equivalent amino acid is substituted, the protein may retain wild-type activity. Substitution may also diminish or eliminate protein function.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "mutation",
    "protein structure",
    "missense mutation",
    "protein engineering",
    "structure-activity relationships"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "sustitución de aminoácidos"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/amino-acid-substitution/"
}

Record 302 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.