Glutamic acid: Glutamic acid (IUPAC-IUBMB abbreviations: Glu and E), or glutamate in the anionic form of glutamic acid, is an α-amino acid whose L-enantiomer is one of 22 proteinogenic amino acids , encoded on messenger RNAs by GAA and GAG codons. It is characterized by the presence of a carboxyl group –COOH at the end of its side chain, which makes it a negatively charged acidic residue in proteins. Its van der Waals radius is 2,109 Å. It is not...
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