'''O-Acetylserine' is an α-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCH(NH2)CH2OC(O)CH3. It is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of the common amino acid cysteine in bacteria and plants. O-Acetylserine is biosynthesized by acetylation of the serine by the enzyme serine transacetylase. The enzyme O''-acetylserine (thiol)-lyase, using sulfide sources, converts this ester into cysteine, releasing acetate: HO2CCH(NH2)CH2OH → HO2CCH(NH2)CH2OC(O)CH3 HO2CCH(NH2)CH2OC(O)CH3 → HO2CCH(NH2)CH2SH
'''O-Acetylserine' is an α-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCH(NH2)CH2OC(O)CH3. It is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of the common amino acid cysteine in bacteria and plants. O-Acetylserine is biosynthesized by acetylation of the serine by the enzyme serine transacetylase. The enzyme O''-acetylserine (thiol)-lyase, using sulfide sources, converts this ester into cysteine, releasing acetate: HO2CCH(NH2)CH2OH → HO2CCH(NH2)CH2OC(O)CH3 HO2CCH(NH2)CH2OC(O)CH3 → HO2CCH(NH2)CH2SH
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).