MBB 324 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ammonia, Zwitterion

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Protein: a long polymer of amino acids with a unique 3d structure. Proteins are polymers of amino acids, with each amino acid residue, which is an amino acid that has lost water, All 20 amino acid are amino acids , because they are comprised up of an carbon(c ) All amino acids, except cysteine (r-configuration), exhibit s configuration. The carbon(c ) is bonded to a carboxyl group, an amino group, a hydrogen, and an r group, which can vary in size, structure, charge, and influence stability. The carbon(c ) is a chiral center because it is bonded to 4 different groups that can occupy 2 unique spatial arrangements called a pair on enantiomers. When an amino acid lacking an ionizable r group is dissolved in water at a neutral ph, it can exist in solution as a. Subsequent carbon atoms in the r groups are designated as , , , , .

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