lysopine, n. Biochem.
(ˈlaɪsəʊpiːn)
[f. lysine n. + *octopine n.]
An opine, C9H18N2O4 , synthesized by plant cells infected by some tumour-inducing plasmids present in the crown gall pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Cf. *nopaline n.
| 1960 K. Biemann et al. in Biochim. & Biophys. Acta XL. 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. XLIX. 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. LXII. 441 Lysopine and nopaline dehydrogenase were not detected in any of the selected protoclones. |