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As both the amine and carboxylic acid groups of amino acids can react to form amide bonds, one amino acid molecule can react with another and become joined through an amide linkage. This polymerization of amino acids is what creates proteins. This condensation reaction yields the newly formed peptide bond and a molecule of water.
Lysine. Technically, any organic compound with an amine (–NH 2) and a carboxylic acid (–COOH) functional group is an amino acid. The proteinogenic amino acids are a small subset of this group that possess a central carbon atom (α- or 2-) bearing an amino group, a carboxyl group, a side chain and an α-hydrogen levo conformation, with the exception of glycine, which is achiral, and proline ...
The parent of this family of ligands is the amino acid glycine, H 2 NCH 2 COOH, in which the amino group, NH 2, is separated from the carboxyl group, COOH by a single methylene group, CH 2. When the carboxyl group is deprotonated the glycinate ion can function as a bidentate ligand , binding the metal centre through the nitrogen and one of two ...
These chemical libraries are sets of compounds that can be tested repeatedly. Using the principles of combinatorial chemistry, the Ugi reaction offers the possibility to synthesize a great number of compounds in one reaction, by the reaction of various ketones (or aldehydes), amines, isocyanides and carboxylic acids. These libraries can then be ...
Nearly all genes are translated using only 20 standard amino acid building blocks. Two unusual genetically-encoded amino acids are selenocysteine and pyrrolysine. Pyrrolysine was discovered in 2002 at the active site of methyltransferase enzyme from a methane-producing archeon, Methanosarcina barkeri.
Names of acyl groups of amino acids are formed by replacing the -ine suffix with -yl. For example, the acyl group of glycine is glycyl , and of lysine is lysyl . Names of acyl groups of ribonucleoside monophosphates such as AMP (5′-adenylic acid), GMP (5′-guanylic acid), CMP (5′-cytidylic acid), and UMP (5′-uridylic acid) are adenylyl ...
Glutamine is the most abundant naturally occurring, nonessential amino acid in the human body, and one of the few amino acids that can directly cross the blood–brain barrier. [7] Humans obtain glutamine through catabolism of proteins in foods they eat. [ 23 ]
Glycine N-carboxyanhydride is the parent member of the amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides. NCAs are typically prepared by phosgenation of amino acids : [ 4 ] They were first synthesized by Hermann Leuchs by heating an N -ethoxycarbonyl or N -methoxycarbonyl amino acid chloride in a vacuum at 50-70 °C: [ 5 ] [ 6 ]