PPT-§ 2.1 Amino Acids

21a Nomenclature 21b Ionization 21c Chirality 21d Modification II PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY 21a Nomenclature Proteins or polypeptides are polymers made up of building blocks or monomeric units called . What are amino acids?. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins.. In the body, they exist as zwitterions.. Zwitterions can behave as both an acid or a base.. Today we will:. Study . the acid-base properties of amino acids, . Stryer. Short Course. Chapter . 3. Amino Acid Structure. Alpha carbon. Sidechain. Proteins. peptides. Stereochemisty. L-amino acids. Glycine. R/S . vs. D/L. L-isoleucine. racemization. Ionization of Amino Acids. Subunits (building blocks) of peptides and proteins. Neurotransmitters. Metabolic intermediates. glutamate. γ. -. aminobutyric. acid. (GABA). Proteins are synthesized from 20 ‘standard’ . α. -amino acids. Their names have 3- and 1-letter abbreviations.. THE EXCRETION OF AMMONIUM IONS. A part of NH4+ that is formed in the degradation of amino acids is used for the biosynthesis of nitrogen compounds. In most of the land living vertebrates the excess NH4+ is converted in urea and in that form is excreted. In birds and reptiles it is converted into uric acid and in aquatic animals it is directly excreted as urea.. When an amino acid with positive and negative charges is overall neutral in charge, it is said to be at its . isoelectric point (. pI. ). .. . Ball-and-stick model of glycine at its . pI. of 6.0.. 18. /2014. Biochemistry I. Dr. Loren Williams. Proteinogenic Amino Acids. An amino acid contains . an amine group . a carboxylic acid group, . a side-chain (or R-group,. all attached to the same chiral carbon atom (the Cα). amine group. Draw. a carboxylic acid group. Join. them together to form a molecule with an amine and . a carboxylic acid . group. Amino Acids. Building blocks of proteins. Two functional groups: a carboxylic acid and a primary amine. Part 1 - Amino Acids. Structure and Chemistry. Building Blocks of Proteins. Essential Amino Acids. Basic Structure. Stereochemistry. Side Chain Chemistry. Properties. Ionization. Bonding. Amino Acids & Proteins. Amino Acids. Amino acid play A central role as building block of proteins.. Amino acids also converted to specialized products.. More than 300 different amino acids have been described in nature, only 20 are commonly found in mammalian proteins... . are organic molecules that are the building block of . . proteins. .. -There is 20 . α. -amino acids commonly found in . proteins. . ( . they . have a carboxyl group and an amino group . . . Amino acids are weak . polyprotic. acids . . Neutral amino acids are (. gly. , ala, threonine ) are treated as diprotic acids .. acidic amino acids (. glu. , asp,) are treated as . triprotic. acids .. backbone.  . atoms . (see aminoAcids1).  but a unique set of . side chain . atoms. It's the side chains that make the 20 amino acids different from each other. . 1. Use the three identical backbone pieces and three unique side chain pieces below to construct three amino acids in the space to the right.. imino. acid.” . Figure 5: Comparison of the secondary amino group found in proline with the primary amino group found in other amino acids such as alanine.. 2. Proline: . Proline differs from other amino acids in that its side chain and amino N form a rigid, five -member red ring structure (Figure 5). Proline, then, has a secondary (rather than a primary) amino group. It is frequently referred to as an “. BSc 3. rd. year . AMINO ACIDS. C. lassification of amino acids . Classification according to nature of side chain. PREPARATION OF AMINO ACIDS. 1. Gabriel Phthalimide synthesis. 2. Strecker’s synthesis.