A variant spelling or older form of alanine, an amino acid essential to protein synthesis in living organisms.
An older or alternative spelling of 'alanine,' derived from 'aldehyde' plus 'amine,' reflecting the chemical structure of this amino acid as identified by 19th-century chemists.
Alanine was one of the first amino acids that chemists could actually see and measure—it became a model for understanding how proteins are built from these smaller molecular building blocks!
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