Aspartic acid: Aspartic acid (IUPAC-IUBMB abbreviations: Asp and D), is an α-amino acid whose L-enantiomer is one of the 22 proteinogenic amino acids, encoded on messenger RNAs by codons GAU and GAC . It is characterized by the presence of a carboxyl group –COOH at the end of its side chain, giving it an isoelectric point of 2,77, making it the most acidic residue in proteins. Its anion and conjugate base is aspartate and its van der Waals radius v...
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