Posted by brussell on January 14, 2004, at 16:43:38
In reply to tyrosine, posted by mikef on January 14, 2004, at 13:17:50
do you mean l-tyrosine and s-tyrosine? These are the two optical enantiomers of tyrosine (that is, they are "the same" except that they are mirror images of each other--the two branches of the central carbon atom are switched.) Chemically, they behave very differently. l-tyrosine is an amino acid that makes up proteins, while s-tyrosine is toxic.
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