BCH210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Leucine, Cysteine, Arginine

• School: UTSG
• Department: Biochemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
• Course: BCH210H1
• Professor: Reinhart Reithmeier

Document Summary

Bch210h1(f) lecture 2: amino acids having aliphatic side chains (whose carbon atoms form open chains): Glycine (gly, g) alanine (ala, a) valine (val, v) leucine (leu, l) isoleucine (ile, i: amino acids with aliphatic hydroxyl side chains: Serine (ser, s) threonine (thr, t: notice that threonine has -branched side chain, amino acids with aromatic side chains: Phenylalanine tyrosine tryptophan (trp, w) (phe, f) (tyr, y: sulfur-containing amino acids: Cysteine (cys, c) methionine (met, m: 2 cysteines can come together to form a disulfide bond: 2 cysteines cystine: acidic amino acids: Aspartate (asp, d) glutamate (glu, e) asparagine (asn, n) glutamine (gln, q) 2: basic amino acids: guanidinium group imidazole ring. Histidine (his, h: proline (pro, p, unique because it is not a primary amino acid (1 c bonded to amine. N), but rather, it is a secondary amino acid (imino acid) side chain is cyclic ring via a covalent bond with the backbone.