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Smith Ch27 Lecture Edit-AMINOACIDOS 6TA
Smith Ch27 Lecture Edit-AMINOACIDOS 6TA
Smith Ch27 Lecture Edit-AMINOACIDOS 6TA
Sixth Edition
Janice Gorzynski Smith
University of Hawai’i
Chapter 27
Lecture Outline
Prepared by Andrea Leonard
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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1
Amino Acids
Naturally occurring amino acids have an amino group (NH2)
bonded to the α carbon of a carboxy group (COOH), and so they
are called α-amino acids.
Figure 27.3
How the charge of a neutral
amino acid depends on the pH
A chiral amine can be reacted with the free carboxy group of the N-
acetyl alanine to give a separable pair of diastereomers.
Arg–Pro–Pro–Gly–Phe–Ser–Pro–Phe–Arg
bradykinin