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Uncommon card · Science
Cysteine, an Uncommon card
Cysteine is a semiessential proteinogenic amino acid with the formula HS−CH2−CH−COOH.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 155
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 95,000
Power 155 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The thiol side chain in cysteine enables the formation of disulfide bonds, and often participates in enzymatic reactions as a nucleophile.
- Cysteine is chiral, but both D- and L-cysteine are found in nature.
- L‑Cysteine is a protein monomer in all biota, and D-cysteine acts as a signaling molecule in mammalian nervous systems.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cysteine article was read about 95,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Cysteine
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The cards just above and just below Cysteine in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Wilhelm WundtUncommon · Science · ATK 88 DEF 67
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- Frilled sharkUncommon · Nature · ATK 72 DEF 83
- Abd Allah ibn al-ZubayrUncommon · History · ATK 72 DEF 83
- Alex RossUncommon · Arts · ATK 78 DEF 77
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cysteine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NEUROtiker, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
