Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Lanthionine is a non
proteinogenic amino acid found in peptides of microbial origin.
It is a sulfide bridged alanine dimer (HOOC-
CH(NH2)-CH2-S-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH) which is synthesized from
cysteine and dehydroalanine by posttranslational modifications
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