Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Structure of 20 amino acids
- Aliphatic hydrophobic side chains.
- Glycine = H as a side chain
- Alanine = methyl group
- Valine = branched chain
- Leucine = branched chain
- Isoleucine = branched chain
- Methionine = methyl group metabolism
- Phenylalanine = aromatic side chain
- Tyrosine = aromatic side chain with OH group
- Tryptophan = indole group joined to methylene group
- Hydrophillic amino acids
- Acidic side chains
- Aspartic and glutamic acids
- Basic side chains
- lysine and arginine strongly basic
- histidine weakly basic
- Amides of acidic amino acids
- asparagine and glutamine
- Hydroxylated amino acids
- serine and threonine
- Cysteine
- can form S-S bonds and
found at active centre of
enzymes
- Proline
- imino group