
Amino acid
WordNet
noun
(1) Organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group
"Proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group.
- Any of the twenty naturally occurring α-amino acids (having the amino, and carboxylic acid groups on the same carbon atom), and a variety of side chains, that combine, via peptide bonds, to form proteins.
Hyponyms
- essential amino acid
- nonessential amino acid
- See also Wikisaurus:amino acid
See also
- alanine
- aspargine
- aspartic acid
- cysteine
- glutamic acid
- glutamine
- glycine
- histidine
- isoleucine
- leucine