One-letter code
N
What is Asparagine
Asp
Aspartate
This amino acid is a disruptor of alpha helices
What is proline or glycine?
Amino acid that can form a covalent disulfide bond
What is cysteine?
Amino acid pair that are structural isomers of each other
What are leucine and isoleucine?
F
What is Phenylalanine
Glu
Glutamate
Most likely residues (name 3) found deep within a protein's core
What are Leucine, Isoleucine, Valine, Methionine, Alanine, Phenylalanine?
Charge of arginine at pH 7
What is positive or +1?
Contains an amide group
What are asparagine and glutamine
Q
What is Glutamine
Ile
Isoleucine
Occupies the residue directly following proline in a beta turn
What is glycine?
Charge of glutamate at pH 7
Contains a sulfur atom in a thioether group
What is methionine?
Y
What is Tyrosine
Thr
Threonine
Known as the catalytic triad in the chymotrypsin active site
What are serine, histidine, and aspartate?
Amino acid that is achiral
What is glycine?
The amino acids with hydroxyl-containing R groups, named
What are Serine, Threonine, Tyrosine?
W
What is Tryptophan
Asn
Asparagine
Phosphorylation on this residue (791) enables DTS conformational change in LIN-45
What is threonine?
What are threonine, cysteine, asparagine, glutamine?
Number of carbons, and number of nitrogens, in the arginine side chain