Also known as (3aS-(3aalpha,4beta,6aalpha))-N(6)-(5-(hexahydro-2-oxo-1H-thieno(3,4-d)imidazol-4-yl)-1-oxopentyl)-L-lysine, epsilon-N-biotinyllysine, N-biotinyl-L-lysine, N(epsilon)-biotinyl-L-lysine, biotinyl-L-lysine, N(6)-D-biotinyl-L-lysine, N6-D-Biotinyl-L-lysine
Biocytin is a chemical compound that is an amide formed from the vitamin biotin and the amino acid L-lysine. As an intermediate in the metabolism of biotin, biocytin occurs naturally in blood serum and urine.
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Biocytin is a chemical compound that is an amide formed from the vitamin biotin and the amino acid L-lysine. As an intermediate in the metabolism of biotin, biocytin occurs naturally in blood serum and urine.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).