BIO 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Frederick Sanger, Carboxylic Acid, Amine

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R groups may be as simple as a hydrogen atom (as in the amino acid glycine), or it may be a carbon skeleton with various functional groups attached (as in glutamine). The physical and chemical properties of the r group determine the unique characteristics of a particular amino acid. One group of amino acids has hydrophobic r groups. Another group of amino acids has polar r groups that are hydrophilic. A third group of amino acids includes those with functional groups that are charged (ionized) at cellular ph. Some acidic r groups are negative in charge due to the presence of a carboxyl group. Basic r groups have amino groups that are positive in charge. Note that all amino acids have carboxyl and amino groups. The terms acidic and basic in this context refer only to these groups in the r groups.

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