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Amino Acids |
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Amino Acids |
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Histidine |
Topic: Amino Acids |
| Histidine (abbreviated as His or H)[1] is one of the 20 standard amino acids present in proteins. In the nutritional sense, in humans, histidine is considered an essential amino acid, but mostly only in children. Its codons are CAU and CAC. |
| Published: Tuesday 25 November, 2008 |
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Tyrosine |
Topic: Amino Acids |
| Tyrosine (abbreviated as Tyr or Y)[1] or 4-hydroxyphenylalanine, is one of the 20 amino acids that are used by cells to synthesize proteins. This is a non-essential amino acid and it is found in casein. In fact, the word "tyrosine" is from the Greek tyros, meaning cheese, as it was first discovered ... |
| Published: Tuesday 25 November, 2008 |
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Serine |
Topic: Amino Acids |
| Serine (abbreviated as Ser or S)[1] is an organic compound with the formula HO2CCH(NH2)CH2OH. |
| Published: Tuesday 25 November, 2008 |
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Proline |
Topic: Amino Acids |
| Proline (abbreviated as Pro or P) is an α-amino acid, one of the twenty DNA-encoded amino acids. Its codons are CCU, CCC, CCA, and CCG. It is not an essential amino acid, which means that humans can synthesize it. It is unique among the 20 protein-forming amino acids because the α-amino gr... |
| Published: Tuesday 25 November, 2008 |
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Glycine |
Topic: Amino Acids |
| Glycine (abbreviated as Gly or G)[2] is the organic compound with the formula NH2CH2COOH. It is the smallest of the 20 amino acids commonly found in proteins, coded by codons GGU, GGC, GGA and GGG. Glycine is unique among the proteinogenic amino acids in that it is not chiral. Most proteins contain ... |
| Published: Tuesday 25 November, 2008 |
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Valine |
Topic: Amino Acids |
| Valine (abbreviated as Val or V)[1] is an α-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCH(NH2)CH(CH3)2. L-Valine is one of 20 proteogenic amino acids. Its codons are GUU, GUC, GUA, and GUG. This essential amino acid is classified as nonpolar. Along with leucine and isoleucine, valine is a branche... |
| Published: Tuesday 25 November, 2008 |
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Threonine |
Topic: Amino Acids |
| Threonine (abbreviated as Thr or T)[1] is an α-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCH(NH2)CH(OH)CH3. Its codons are ACU, ACA, ACC, and ACG. This essential amino acid is classified as polar. Together with serine and tyrosine, threonine is one of three proteinogenic amino acids bearing an al... |
| Published: Tuesday 25 November, 2008 |
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Tryptophan |
Topic: Amino Acids |
| Tryptophan (abbreviated as Trp or W)[1] is one of the 20 standard amino acids, as well as an essential amino acid in the human diet. It is encoded in genetic code as the codon UGG. Only the L-stereoisomer of tryptophan is used in structural or enzyme proteins, but the D-stereoisomer is occasionally ... |
| Published: Tuesday 25 November, 2008 |
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Glutamine |
Topic: Amino Acids |
| Glutamine (abbreviated as Gln or Q; the abbreviation Glx or Z represents either glutamine or glutamic acid) is one of the 20 amino acids encoded by the standard genetic code. Its side chain is an amide formed by replacing the side-chain hydroxyl of glutamic acid with an amine functional group. It ca... |
| Published: Tuesday 25 November, 2008 |
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Glutamic acid |
Topic: Amino Acids |
| Glutamic acid (abbreviated as Glu or E) is one of the 20 alpha amino acids. It is not among the human essential amino acids. Its codons are GAA and GAG. |
| Published: Tuesday 25 November, 2008 |
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