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Cysteine is also an irreplaceable building block of vital proteins required to sustain life. It’s unclear if there is any potential benefit of applying these fi
by LPisGood 1y ago
Cysteine is also an irreplaceable building block of vital proteins required to sustain life. It’s unclear if there is any potential benefit of applying these findings to the problem of human weight loss or fitness.
- kens 1y agoCysteine is not an essential amino acid. Humans can synthesize it from methionine.
- gus_massa 1y agoI agree, for example Pepsin[1] that is the protein inside the stomach that split proteins has Cysteine [2] > Pepsin forms three between the sulfur atoms of cysteine residues in the peptide chain which hold important roles in the folding of the protein and stabilizing the two domains [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsin [2] https://biology.kenyon.edu/BMB/jsmol2021/Cat_Marko/index.htm#:~:text=Pepsin%20forms%20three,the%20two%20domains https://biology.kenyon.edu/BMB/jsmol2021/Cat_Marko/index.htm...
- User23 1y agoI would make a stronger statement and say that this belongs squarely on the effect and not the cause side. I could be wrong, but I doubt it. Amino acid depletion sounds way more likely to be due to some kind of disruption in homeostasis rather than dietary intake.