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CowperKettle

8:06 AM

What could be the meaning of the red circles with the letters S? Sulfur? Sidechains?

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6470294

Would it be a good question for the main site?

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Mithoron

2:55 PM

@CowperKettle all this should be in the paper. S is probably for sulfur

CowperKettle

3:25 PM

A: What could these letters "S" in red circles mean in a biochemical diagram?

It almost certainly refers to the amino acid (residue) serine. The numbers (300, 333, 351) refer to the residue numbers. The COOH at the end signifies the C-terminus of the protein (subunit). The black P's next to it are phosphate groups; both protein kinase A and C ("PKA" and "PKC") are involved...

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M.A.R.

@CowperKettle They look like serine residues to me

@CowperKettle Oh good

@CowperKettle Check this out fao.org/3/y2775e/y2775e0e.htm

Whenever you see one of them illustrated somehow in a protein, with a number next to them, they're amino acids that shape the protein's function

If that's the only thing you don't understand here, then you understand a lot more than me. — Ivan Neretin 5 hours ago

Meh. There's nothing to understand about signaling pathways, says the trivial experience I've had with them. You just repeat funny acronyms until the Stockholm syndrome kicks in and you think you're understanding something

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Hot nitric acid (HNQ)

4:36 PM

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Hot nitric acid (HNQ)

6:37 PM

Q: What could these letters "S" in red circles mean in a biochemical diagram?

What could be the meaning of the red circles with letters S in them in the diagram below? I searched in the text but could not find. From "Role of TREK-1 in Health and Disease, Focus on the Central Nervous System", Figure 2: