Methionine

Know your Amino Acids fact sheet:

Full name Methionine    
3 letter name Met
1 letter name M
   
What you see: What a biochemist sees:
synmod-alt-12 Methionine-x
Speciality –
Sources (animal) Meat, eggs, fish
Sources (plant) sesame seeds, Brazil nuts, cereal grains
   
Chemical formula C5H11NO2S
Essential X
Non-essential –
   
Hydrophobic X
Hydrophilic (neutral) –
(positive) –
(negative) –
   

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