Leucosin

Japanese: leucosin
Leucosin

…The term is derived from egg white, and is a general term for a group of simple proteins. Representative examples include animal albumins such as egg albumin, serum albumin, and lacto albumin, as well as plant albumins such as leucosin (wheat and barley) and legumelin (pea and soybean). The majority of egg albumin is called ovalbumin, a protein with a molecular weight of 45,000, which alone accounts for 65% of the protein in the egg white. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "leucosin" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…卵白albumenに由来する言葉で,一群の単純タンパク質の総称である。代表的なものに,動物性アルブミンとして卵(らん)アルブミンegg albumin,血清アルブミンserum albumin,乳アルブミンlacto albuminなど,また植物性としてロイコシンleucosin(コムギ,オオムギ),レグメリンlegumelin(エンドウ,ダイズ)がある。卵アルブミンの大部分はオバルブミンovalbuminとよばれ,分子量4万5000のタンパク質であり,これだけで白身中のタンパク質の65%を占める。…

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