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Biochemistry
Undergraduate 4
01/31/2011

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Term
Acidic amino acids
Definition
negative charge. apartate (aspartic acid) glutamate (glutamic acid)
Term
Basic amino acids
Definition
positive charge. lysine, arginine, histidine
Term
Aromatic amino acids
Definition
absorb at 280 nm. phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan.
Term
Sulfur amino acids
Definition
Cysteine (forms disulfide bonds) methionine (does not)
Term
uncharged hydrophilic amino acids
Definition
serine, threonine, asparagine, glutamine
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inactive hydrophobic amino acids
Definition
glycine, alanine, valine, leucine and isoleucine.
Term
special amino acid
Definition
proline - bonds NH2 group to a ring
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