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Amino Acids With Tricks

This document provides information about the 20 standard amino acids, including their abbreviations, polarity, essential/non-essential status, and chemical properties. It includes tricks to remember which amino acids are non-essential and essential. It also lists color reactions that can be used to identify specific amino acids based on their reactive chemical groups.

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Amino Acids With Tricks

This document provides information about the 20 standard amino acids, including their abbreviations, polarity, essential/non-essential status, and chemical properties. It includes tricks to remember which amino acids are non-essential and essential. It also lists color reactions that can be used to identify specific amino acids based on their reactive chemical groups.

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Amino acids Abbreviation One letter Polar/non Essential /non

three letter symbol polar essential


Acidic/basic

Monoamino monocarboxylic acid


Glycine Gly G Polar Non essential
Alanine Ala A Non polar Non essential
Valine Val V Non polar Essential
Leucine Leu L Non polar Essential
Isoleucine Ile I Non polar Essential

Monoamino dicarboxylic acid


Glutamic acid Glu E Acidic Non essential
Aspartic acid Asp D acidic Non essential

Diamino Monocarboxylic acid


Arginine Arg R Acidic Non essential
Lysine Lys K acidic Essential

Hydroxyl containing
Threonine Thr T Polar Essential
Serine Ser S Polar Non essential
Tyrosine Tyr Y Polar Non essential
(aromatic)

Sulphur containing
Cysteine Cys C Polar Non essential
Methionine Met M Non polar Essential
Phenylalanine Phe F Non polar Essential
(aromatic)

Heterocyclic
Tryptophan Trp W Non polar , Essential
aromatic
Proline Pro P Non polar Non essential
Histidine His H Basic Essential

Amide containing
Glutamine Glu Q Polar Non essential
Aspargine Asp N Polar Non essential
TRICK TO LEARN NON ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS
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Almost Alanine
All Asparagine
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Go Glutamine
Crazy Cysteine
After Aspartate
Getting Glycine
Promo Proline
Token Tyrosine
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TRICK TO LEARN ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS


P.V.T T.I.M H.A.L.L
P Phenylalanine
V Valine
T Threonine
T Tryptophan
I Isoleucine
M Methionine
H Histidine
A Arginine
L Leucine
L Lysine

COLOUR REACTIONS OF AMINO ACIDS


Reactions Answered by specific groups
Ninhydrin Alpha amino group
Biuret reaction Peptide bonds
Xanthoproteic test Benzene ring (Phe,Tyr, Trp)
Millon's test Phenol (Tyrosine)
Aldehyde test (Hopkin’s cole reaction) Indole (Tryptophan)
Sakaguchi's test Guanidinium (Arginine)
Sulphur test Sulfhydryl (Cysteine)
Nitroprusside test Sulfhydryl (Cysteine)
Pauly's test Imidazole (Histidine)
Folin-colcalteau’s test Phenolic group (Tyr)

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