- a crystalline, basic, amino acid, H2N(CH2)4CH(NH2)COOH, produced chiefly from many proteins by hydrolysis, essential in the nutrition of humans and animals. Abbreviation: Lys; Symbol: K
- an essential amino acid that occurs in proteins
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