How to Use phenylalanine in a Sentence

phenylalanine

noun

• The test offered a way to detect high levels of phenylalanine, the amino acid that builds up in PKU.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
• There's a lot of green tea, an okay amount of caffeine, some cayenne pepper, and phenylalanine which can help with your mood.
  — Matt Cooper, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• He was born with phenylketonuria (PKU), the build-up of amino acid called phenylalanine in the body which can cause learning disabilities.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
• People with the disorder can’t break down an amino acid called phenylalanine—or Phe for short—which is found in high-protein foods like meat and eggs.
  — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
• With a deficiency of the enzyme, phenylalanine and its metabolites can build up in the blood and damage the brain cells.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2023
• For the trial, the company enrolled 20 adults with high phenylalanine levels.
  — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
• Of those, 60 percent—or nine people—saw more than 20 percent reduction in their phenylalanine levels at either the one-week or two-week mark, which was measured via blood draws.
  — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
• Without the enzyme, phenylalanine can rise to dangerously high levels that damage the brain.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
• Aspartame does break down into methanol and phenylalanine.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
• For now, the only strong health advisory against aspartame is for people with phenylketonuria (PKU) who can't break down the protein phenylalanine which is found in aspartame.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 13 July 2023
• Babies are routinely tested for a genetic disorder known as PKU, in which children are born unable to break down an amino acid called phenylalanine.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2010
• If a person had large amounts of phenylalanine in the blood, the disease's signature, bacteria would proliferate; otherwise the bacteria would be held in check.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
• With this knowledge, the family started their child on treatment with a specialized diet including low levels of phenylalanine.
  — Wendy Chung, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2021
• The classic success story is neonatal screening for phenylketonuria [a genetic disorder characterized by the inability to utilize the amino acid phenylalanine], which has saved thousands of children’s brains.
  — Robert Keating, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2010
• High-quality protein is any protein that contains all of the nine essential amino acids (histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine) that our bodies don’t make on their own.
  — USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
• The nine essential amino acids are: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
• August 1974: The FDA receives objections that phenylalanine in aspartame could lead to convulsions and intellectual disabilities.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 14 July 2023
• The committee further noted that, when consumed, aspartame quickly breaks down in the gastrointestinal tract into three common metabolites: phenylalanine, aspartic acid, and methanol.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024