BCH 4053 Summer 2001 Amino Acid Structures


BCH 4053--General Biochemistry I--Spring 2003

These structures are from the MathMol Library at NYU. You will need the CHIME plug in to view them, which you can obtain from the MDL download site.

Non-Polar (hydrophobic)

Alanine (Ala, A)

Valine (Val, V)

Leucine (Leu, L)

Isoleucine (Ile, I)

Proline (Pro, P)

Methionine (Met, M)^a

Phenylalanine (Phe, F)^b

Tryptophan (Trp, W)^b

^aContain sulfur

^bContain aromatic ring

Polar (uncharged)

Glycine (Gly, G)

Serine (Ser, S)

Threonine (Thr, T)

Cysteine (Cys, C)^a

Asparagine (Asn, N)

Glutamine (Gln, Q)

Tyrosine (Tyr, Y)^b

Acidic

Aspartic (Asp, D)

Glutamic (Glu, E)

Basic

Lysine (Lys, K)

Histidine (His, H)

Arginine (Arg, R)

Tutorials for using CHIME: MDL Tutorial; Carnegie Mellon Tutorial (written by Dr. Gordon Rule); Cabrillo College Tutorial (written by Harry Ungar)

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