Researchers identified multiple alanins in the sample using mass spectrometry.

The protein's alanines clustered on one face of the helix, affecting its stability.

To improve solubility, the chemists converted the amino acid into an alaninate, which dissolved easily in the reaction solvent.

The researchers found that several alaninates exhibited unexpected catalytic activity in peptide synthesis.

During prolonged exercise, the liver increases gluconeogenesis using alanine released from muscles.

The historian explained that alanin was the archaic term for the amino acid we now call alanine.