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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Heard as an indeterminate pronunciation on NPR this morning. It prompted me to do some googling. Sure enough, there are plenty of clear examples of folks writing “immuno”, as a freestanding word, where strictly speaking the concept “amino” is intended. Examples:
“Immuno acids
Blank blank are the smaller molecules that make up proteins” —https://quizlet.com/30911129/cell-process-flash-cards/
“Well he does say that the difference is that “animal proteins tend to have more sulfure containing immuno acids like methionine” and then shows this…” —https://m.reddit.com/r/fermentation/com … refaction/
“There’s an immuno-acid called aspartate and like all the immuno-acids that can exist in a D or L isomer and this is just the isolated D isomer.” —http://www.lessdoing.com/podcasts/24
“He’s born with a lack of enzyme that helps to metabolize an immuno acid called Phenylalanine.” —https://www.excelmale.com/showthread.ph … -Effective
“The sequence variant S269P corresponds to a variation in amino acid class (hydroxylated to immuno acid) at the beginning of the nucleotide-binding domain.”—https://www.google.com/patents/US7592437
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This site’s admin, Pat, was baffled by this usage when it was similarly stumbled upon earlier. Your last hit, where an amino acid gets hydroxylated to an immuno acid, only adds to the bafflement.
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