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Amino acid properties
Name, three letter code, one letter code, molecular weight (g/mol),
pKR, abundance in SwissProt v.36
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Name
|
Three letter code
|
One letter code
|
Mw
|
pKR*
|
Abundance Sprot36 (%)
|
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Alanine
|
Ala
|
A
|
71
|
-
|
7.58
|
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Cysteine
|
Cys
|
C
|
103
|
8.3
|
1.67
|
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Aspartic acid
|
Asp
|
D
|
114
|
3.9
|
5.28
|
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Glutamic acid
|
Glu
|
E
|
128
|
4.3
|
6.35
|
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Phenylalanine
|
Phe
|
F
|
147
|
-
|
4.08
|
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Glycine
|
Gly
|
G
|
57
|
-
|
6.83
|
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Histidine
|
His
|
H
|
137
|
6.0
|
2.24
|
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Isoleucine
|
Ile
|
I
|
113
|
-
|
5.80
|
|
Lysine
|
Lys
|
K
|
129
|
10.8
|
5.93
|
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Leucine
|
Leu
|
L
|
113
|
-
|
9.42
|
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Methionine
|
Met
|
M
|
131
|
-
|
2.37
|
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Asparagine
|
Asn
|
N
|
114
|
-
|
4.47
|
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Proline
|
Pro
|
P
|
97
|
-
|
4.91
|
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Glutamine
|
Gln
|
Q
|
128
|
-
|
3.99
|
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Arginine
|
Arg
|
R
|
157
|
12.5
|
5.14
|
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Serine
|
Ser
|
S
|
87
|
13
|
7.15
|
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Threonine
|
Thr
|
T
|
101
|
13
|
5.69
|
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Valine
|
Val
|
V
|
99
|
-
|
6.56
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Tryptophan
|
Trp
|
W
|
186
|
-
|
1.24
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Tyrosine
|
Tyr
|
Y
|
163
|
10.1
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3.18
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*pKR is the pK value of the side chain R.
To learn more about the amino acids, visit the some of
these links:
Principles
of Protein Structure course
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homology modelling course
CORRESPONDENCE
Nikolaj Blom,
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