anomaly in the amount of cysteine, a sulfur-containing amino acid that is propanoic acid with an amino group at position 2 and a sulfanyl group at position 3; the thiol side chain in cysteine is susceptible to oxidation to give the disulfide derivative cystine, which serves an important structural role in many proteins
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