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- Leucine is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins and is essential in the human diet. It is similar to isoleucine and valine in being ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 22:03, 25 October 2022
- Valine is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins and is essential in the human diet. It is similar to leucine and isoleucine in being ...8 KB (1,183 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- Threonine is an α-amino acid that is common in many proteins and ... synthesis, is one of the 20 standard amino acids common in animal proteins ...9 KB (1,271 words) - 23:04, 30 April 2023
- Glycine is one of the 20 most common, natural, "proteinogenic" (literally, protein building) standard amino acids. It is the simplest ...10 KB (1,540 words) - 08:03, 24 January 2023
- Lysine is an α-amino acid that is present in many proteins, has low available concentration in certain popular agricultural crops, such as wheat ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:39, 5 November 2022
- variety attaches to and transfers a specific amino acid to a polypeptide chain at the ribosomal site of protein synthesis during translation. As non ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 01:34, 2 May 2023
- Methionine is an α-amino acid present in many proteins and, together ... synthesis, is one of the 20 standard amino acids common in animal proteins ...11 KB (1,600 words) - 16:26, 9 November 2022
- and uric acid. He synthesized several amino acids and created small chains ... ==Proteins and amino acids== |right|250px|Nobel Prize winner Emil Fischer ...7 KB (1,041 words) - 23:02, 22 June 2023
- Phenylalanine, an amino acid found in many proteins such as hemoglobin ... synthesis) is one of the twenty standard amino acids common in animal proteins ...15 KB (2,091 words) - 02:59, 24 November 2022
- Tyrosine is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins (such ... synthesis, is one of the 20 standard amino acids common in animal proteins ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 00:41, 3 May 2023
- for decoding messenger RNA (mRNA) into amino acids and interacting with ... of rRNA, and the process of assembling the amino acids in a precise order ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 20:05, 8 December 2022
- Examples of amphoteric substances include water, amino acids, and ... thus acting as acids or bases. Water, amino acids, hydrogen carbonate ...5 KB (789 words) - 17:25, 26 July 2023
- addition, some researchers are looking for amino acids and other chemical ... 867. Retrieved May 30, 2008. the simplest amino acid, but this claim has ...7 KB (940 words) - 18:21, 19 August 2023
- Tryptophan is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins and ... synthesis, is one of the 20 standard amino acids common in animal proteins ...18 KB (2,592 words) - 18:31, 2 May 2023
- , carbohydrates, lipids, nucleotides, and amino acids. Research in biochemistry ... a protein is a polymer built from a set of amino acids. The linking of two ...24 KB (3,603 words) - 23:47, 11 January 2023
- | [[Image:1°-amino-group.png|75px|Primary amine]] | amino- || -amine | [[Image:Methylamine-2D.png|75px|methylamine]]Methylamine ...13 KB (1,621 words) - 07:19, 15 April 2024
- in both solution and the gas phase. Some amino acids, such as lysine, contain a primary amine on their side chains. Those protonated amino groups ...6 KB (841 words) - 23:38, 5 May 2022
- Often, dividing them into amino acids, peptides, and monoamines ... ** 3 or 4 amino acids, depending on exact definition used (primarily ...16 KB (2,070 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- between the nucleotide sequence and the amino-acid sequence of the protein ... to catalyze the synthesis of proteins from amino acid molecules. Proteins ...18 KB (2,589 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- characterized by the regular arrangement of amino acids in each of the three ... Collagen has an unusual amino acid composition and sequence: ...18 KB (2,575 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- each. Each codon encodes for a specific amino acid, except the stop codons ... protein synthesis. Transfer RNAs transport amino acids to the ribosomes and ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 17:57, 4 November 2022
- NAD (and niacin) may also be synthesized in the liver from the amino ... of niacin or inadequate intake of the amino acid tryptophan, which can ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 09:41, 11 March 2023
- studied because its small size (about 100 amino acids) and its water solubility ... in aerobic organisms, and comparison of amino acid sequences of the molecule ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 21:33, 11 June 2020
- the messenger RNA's code for linking amino acids together in a chain ... is translated into a specific sequence of amino acids is a testimony to the ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 09:20, 10 August 2022
- in certain areas of biochemistry, such as amino acid and carbohydrate chemistry ... to glyceraldehyde. One example is the amino acid alanine, which has two ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 17:06, 10 December 2023
- remains a mystery. A small chain of 150 amino acids making up an enzyme ... (and other proteins) are composed of amino acid chains called polypeptide ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 19:04, 13 February 2024
- each. Each codon encodes for a specific amino acid, except the stop codons ... in eukaryotes), the coupling of mRNA and amino acids with the tRNA, and ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 16:17, 9 November 2022
- and is a cofactor in many reactions of amino acid metabolism, including ... of chemical reactions mainly involving amino acids. The reactions carried ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- structured form. Prions have the same amino acid makeup as naturally ... Proteins normally are digested down to amino acids in the gut, and transported ...17 KB (2,526 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- into RNA and further translated into amino acids linked together to ... the diseased. While codons for different amino acids may change in a random ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 08:02, 23 January 2023
- * The Dakin-West reaction converts an amino acid to the corresponding ... * Amino acids – the building blocks of proteins * Keto acids – ...13 KB (1,872 words) - 19:11, 26 November 2023
- wastes originating from protein and amino acid metabolism. One such ... , carbohydrates (for example, glucose), and amino acids (such as glutamate ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- Similarly, an organic compound with multiple amino groups is called ... * as prefix: "amino-" * as suffix: "-amine" ...18 KB (2,577 words) - 07:02, 25 July 2023
- the appropriate protein building blocks, amino acids, to the ribosome; and ... of nucleotides that transfers a specific amino acid to a growing polypeptide ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- in terms of being a possible precursor to amino acids and nucleic acids. ... HCN combines with ketones and aldehydes to give cyanohydrins. Amino ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 13:19, 4 February 2023
- cyanide and ammonia to give, after hydrolysis, the amino acid alanine. Kendall, E.C., and McKenzie, B.F., “dl-Alanine.” Organic Syntheses ...10 KB (1,279 words) - 07:33, 14 June 2023
- small amounts of organic materials, including amino acids. Also, presolar grains are identified in carbonaceous chondrites. The isotope ratios of carbonaceous ...5 KB (669 words) - 16:25, 9 November 2022
- consisting of a phenyl group attached to an amino group. The chemical structure ... Anilides, compounds in which the amino group is substituted by an ...13 KB (1,817 words) - 06:09, 28 July 2023
- step in the synthesis of branched-chain amino acids (valine, leucine, and ... (EPSPS) is used in the synthesis of the amino acids tryptophan, phenylalanine ...17 KB (2,537 words) - 15:43, 25 January 2023
- || 243.3 || 3-{[tris(hydroxymethyl)methyl]amino}propanesulfonic acid ... || 229.20 || 2-{[tris(hydroxymethyl)methyl]amino}ethanesulfonic acid ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- linked rings. Acid dyes usually have a sulfonyl or amino group on the molecule making them soluble in water. Water is the medium in which dyeing takes place. ...5 KB (844 words) - 07:40, 14 June 2023
- structures of such key substances as amino acids, proteins, and nucleic ... Nitrogen is an essential element in the molecules of amino acids, ...22 KB (3,304 words) - 02:26, 16 November 2022
- which can unlink free terminal-end amino acids, one amino acid monomer at a time, from a gradually unwinding and degrading protein polymer. ...20 KB (3,061 words) - 06:24, 6 March 2023
- keto acids derived from the breakdown of amino acids. The liver cells, therefore ... for example, it can convert certain amino acids, and some other molecules ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 20:54, 3 November 2022
- (acetyl coenzyme A), to lactic acid, to the amino acid alanine, and to ethanol ... pyruvate, lactate, glycerol, and glucogenic amino acids. This pathway comprises ...14 KB (1,901 words) - 15:37, 18 June 2015
- a variety of building blocks, including amino acids, sugars, phosphates ... from beta carotene and niacin from the amino acid tryptophan. ...16 KB (2,456 words) - 20:40, 3 May 2023
- (a naturally occurring amine containing one amino group that is connected to an aromatic ring by a two-carbon chain, -CH2-CH2-). Epinephrine ...13 KB (1,794 words) - 16:18, 15 February 2021
- and RNA. Their monomer units are sugars, amino acids (for proteins and peptides ... For instance, proteins are polymers of amino acids. Typically, each protein ...26 KB (3,690 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- through a complex pathway using atoms from the amino acids glycine, glutamine, and aspartic acid, as well as formate ions transferred from the coenzyme ...7 KB (928 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- with a lone pair.) Choline is a derivative of the amino acid serine (Bender and Bender 2005), but is not a protein or amino acid (Swan and Zeisel 2000). ...15 KB (2,128 words) - 23:57, 13 January 2023
- as part of the structures of certain amino acids and proteins. Moreover ... The amino acids cysteine and methionine contain sulfur, as do all ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- * Ricin A Chain is an N-glycoside hydrolase composed of 267 amino ... * Ricin B Chain is a lectin composed of 262 amino acids that is able ...25 KB (3,716 words) - 18:51, 11 August 2022
- to separate proteins that only vary by one amino acid as well as to purify ... to separate charged compounds including amino acids, peptides, and proteins ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 21:51, 10 December 2023
- particularly proteins which contain amino (-NH2) groups, in the body. If galactose accumulates in the body due to flawed enzymatic breakdown ...8 KB (1,106 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- With its high-protein content, including all of the essential amino ... quinoa contains a balanced set of essential amino acids for humans, making ...14 KB (2,175 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- Many organic compounds--such as carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, lipids, nucleotides, and nucleic acids--are found in living systems. The study ...8 KB (1,161 words) - 01:13, 18 November 2022
- replaces the nitrogen by hydrogen, which allows amino and nitro groups to be removed easily from rings == Applications == The first use of diazonium ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 13:34, 15 July 2020
- supplying nutrients such as glucose, amino acids, and fatty acids to ... also clears some proteins, lipids, and amino acids. The kidney actively ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- nitrogen waste originating from protein and amino acid catabolism. In aquatic ... In this cycle, amino groups donated by ammonia and L-aspartate are ...16 KB (2,391 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- is the reaction that forms peptide bonds between amino acids. These amides can participate in hydrogen bonding as hydrogen bond acceptors and donors ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 06:58, 25 July 2023
- from carbohydrates, fatty acids and amino acids in humans and most vertebrates. Ketones are elevated in blood after fasting including a night ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 03:31, 6 October 2022
- iron, B vitamins, organic acids, amino acids, and about 90 percent ... biotin, and folic acid, and many amino acids and phenolic compounds ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 11:09, 9 March 2023
- large amounts of protein and essential amino acids, such as lysine (De ... and leaf are high in protein, including the amino acid lysine. ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- enriched metabolism of glycans, amino acids, and xenobiotics; methanogenesis; ... nucleotides and corresponds to a particular amino acid. Thus a sequence of ...36 KB (5,345 words) - 01:14, 18 November 2022
- (PAH), which is necessary to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine to tyrosine ... from its chimpanzee ortholog by only two amino acid substitutions; nearly ...21 KB (3,045 words) - 17:02, 18 September 2020
- In budding yeast cells, vacuoles act as storage compartments of amino acids and detoxification compartments. Under conditions of starvation, ...10 KB (1,475 words) - 23:00, 13 November 2022
- proteins are broken down to their individual amino acids. The degradation of some membrane proteins begins while still at the cell surface when they are ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 23:46, 3 December 2023
- acids with polyamines having three or more amino (NH2) groups. ==Bulk properties== Nylon is clear and colorless, or milky, but it is easily dyed ...10 KB (1,452 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- sites for synthesis of purines and pyrimidines, amino acids, and fatty acids; in animals, these are made in the cytosol (Alberts et al. 1989). ...12 KB (1,679 words) - 16:58, 14 October 2021
- This can be explained by a high concentration of all eight essential ... especially lysine, threonine, tryptophan, and the sulphur-containing ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 17:20, 30 April 2020
- Pyridine is a fundamentally important chemical compound with the formula C5H5N. It is a liquid with a distinctively putrid, fishy odor. Its molecules ...11 KB (1,458 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- on the break down of the disulfide link of the amino acid called cystine, which is the characteristic of the keratin class of protein like hair ...11 KB (1,861 words) - 04:26, 27 February 2023
- is produced during the normal metabolism of amino acids and is converted to ... Ammonia is also a metabolic product of amino acid deamination. In ...39 KB (5,803 words) - 07:35, 25 July 2023
- of plants and animals. To gain all the amino acids, fatty acids, carbohydrates ... The human body is made up of chemical compounds such as water, amino ...56 KB (8,181 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- genetic code, which specifies the sequence of the amino acids within proteins. The code is read by copying stretches of DNA into the related nucleic ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 21:12, 23 July 2022
- of most chiral biological compounds, such as amino acids, is present. As a result, different enantiomers of a compound may have substantially different ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 05:56, 11 March 2024
- appear also to be involved in the linkage of amino acids into proteins at the ribosome (Robinson 2003). A ribozyme also is known as catalytic RNA. ...13 KB (1,885 words) - 20:53, 16 April 2023
- This barley malt provides the sugars and amino acids for yeast growth, and the yeast converts the sugars to ethyl alcohol in the fermentation ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 08:08, 20 September 2023
- to CD8+ T cells by MHC class I molecules are 8-9 amino acids in length; the peptides presented to CD4+ cells by MHC class II molecules are longer, as ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 18:36, 24 October 2022
- Indeed, simple biogenic compounds, such as amino acids, have been found in ... forms. These four elements together make up amino acids, which in turn are ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- and thiamine, as well as iron (VRIC 2006). The amino acid asparagine gets its name from asparagus, the asparagus plant being rich in this compound ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- through keto acids derived from the breakdown of amino acids. The liver's role in glycogen metabolism is to synthesize and degrade glycogen for ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 18:24, 30 August 2021
- of skeletal muscle proteins to provide amino acids for gluconeogenesis. Cortisol also reduces the inflammatory response of the immune system ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- combine with a residue (constituent) of the amino acid serine in the active site of acetylcholinesterase and inhibit the enzyme. The resulting ...16 KB (2,189 words) - 07:34, 14 June 2023
- surrounding it. Fibroin is made up of the amino acids Gly-Ser-Gly-Ala-Gly ... The high proportion (50%) of glycine, which is a small amino acid ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 20:11, 21 April 2023
- not only eat available plants to obtain essential amino acids, but also obtain nutrients from vegetable matter from the stomach and intestinal contents ...38 KB (6,036 words) - 11:04, 2 August 2023
- including peptides (chains of amino acids) and steroids. Progesterone is a type of progestogen, a subset of sex steroids, with androgens and ...17 KB (2,310 words) - 08:47, 28 June 2022
- code, which specifies the sequence of the amino acids within proteins. The ... the nucleotide sequences of genes and the amino-acid sequences of proteins ...74 KB (10,725 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- products (isoprostanes, TBARS), amino acid oxidation products (such as meta-tyrosine, ortho-tyrosine, hydroxy-Leu, dityrosine), peptide oxidation ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- is the high percentage of peptidoglycan—sugar + amino acid molecule—in the cell wall.) Fleming expressed initial optimism that penicillin ...17 KB (2,357 words) - 07:15, 23 November 2022
- long and creates a protein that is 1,480 amino acids long. The most common ... 508, resulting in the absence of the amino acid phenylalanine. Consequently ...56 KB (8,332 words) - 07:29, 12 January 2024
- 1985). These reactions add hydroxyl groups to the amino acids proline or lysine in the collagen molecule, yielding hydroproline, an amino acid that ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 20:15, 17 April 2023
- It is characterized by the regular arrangement of amino acids in each of the three chains; under tension, the triple helix coils tight, resisting stretching ...19 KB (2,819 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- a result of the inherent lack of two key amino acids in pre-modern maize, lysine and tryptophan. Nixtamalization was also found to increase ...30 KB (4,684 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- to break down sulfides and generate sulfenic acids (amino acid sulfoxides). Sulphenic acids are unstable and decompose into a volatile gas called syn ...16 KB (2,477 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- The chemical compound formaldehyde (also known as methanal) is a gas with a pungent smell. It is the simplest aldehyde. Its chemical formula ...18 KB (2,445 words) - 06:34, 1 April 2024
- nature, especially including the side chains of amino acids, and many cofactors such as porphyrins. :Example: hemoglobin :Many natural ligands ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- globin portion, being protein, is degraded into amino acids and plays no further role in jaundice. Two reactions then take place with the heme ...21 KB (3,036 words) - 10:01, 1 April 2024
- demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. ==Advocacy== [[Image:Planetary society.jpg|thumb|right|200px ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- hydrogens. When the spacing of the amino acid residues participating in a hydrogen bond occurs regularly between positions i and i + 4, ...25 KB (3,936 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023