Amino acids are organic compounds that contain both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups. Although over 500 amino acids exist in nature, by far... 97 KB (10,126 words) - 21:25, 17 April 2024 |
An essential amino acid, or indispensable amino acid, is an amino acid that cannot be synthesized from scratch by the organism fast enough to supply its... 27 KB (2,695 words) - 17:18, 28 March 2024 |
A glucogenic amino acid (or glucoplastic amino acid) is an amino acid that can be converted into glucose through gluconeogenesis. This is in contrast to... 5 KB (520 words) - 15:37, 29 April 2024 |
An aromatic amino acid is an amino acid that includes an aromatic ring. Among the 20 standard amino acids, histidine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, tyrosine... 11 KB (1,067 words) - 11:48, 5 April 2024 |
Peptide (redirect from Amino acid chain length) Peptides are short chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds. A polypeptide is a longer, continuous, unbranched peptide chain. Polypeptides that have... 22 KB (2,416 words) - 18:36, 22 March 2024 |
A ketogenic amino acid is an amino acid that can be degraded directly into acetyl-CoA, which is the precursor of ketone bodies and myelin, particularly... 7 KB (821 words) - 01:48, 26 March 2024 |
ᴅ-Amino acids are amino acids where the stereogenic carbon alpha to the amino group has the ᴅ-configuration. For most naturally-occurring amino acids,... 13 KB (1,588 words) - 21:01, 15 March 2024 |