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amino_acid

amino acid

See also: aminoacid and aminoàcid

English

Noun

amino acid ‎(plural amino acids)

(organic chemistry) Any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group.
(biochemistry) Any of the twenty naturally occurring α-amino acids (having the amino, and carboxylic acid groups on the same carbon atom), and a variety of side chains, that combine, via peptide bonds, to form proteins.

Hyponyms

essential amino acid
nonessential amino acid
See also Wikisaurus:amino acid

Holonyms

protein

Related terms

imino acid

Translations

any organic compound containing amino and carboxylic acid

Catalan: aminoàcid m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 氨基酸 ‎(on¹ gei¹ syun¹)

Mandarin: 氨基酸 (zh) ‎(ānjīsuān), 胺基酸 (zh) ‎(ānjīsuān, ànjīsuān)

Min Nan: 胺基酸 ‎(an-ki-sng)
Czech: aminokyselina (cs) f
Danish: aminosyre (da) c
Dutch: aminozuur (nl) n
Esperanto: amina acido
Finnish: aminohappo (fi)
French: acide aminé (fr) m
Galician: aminoácido (gl) m
German: Aminosäure (de) f
Greek: αμινοξύ (el) n ‎(aminoxý)
Ido: amin-acido (io)

Irish: ^{(please verify)}aimínaigéad (ga) m
Italian: amminoacido (it) m
Japanese: アミノ酸 (ja) ‎(あみのさん, amino-san)
Latvian: aminoskābe (lv) f
Norwegian:

Bokmål: aminosyre (no) m, f

Nynorsk: aminosyre f
Polish: aminokwas (pl) m
Portuguese: aminoácido (pt) m
Romanian: aminoacid (ro) m
Russian: аминокислота́ (ru) f ‎(aminokislotá)
Serbo-Croatian: aminokiselìna f
Spanish: aminoácido (es) m
Swedish: aminosyra (sv) c
Turkish: aminoasit

any of the twenty α-amino acids

Chinese:
Mandarin: 氨基酸 (zh) ‎(ānjīsuān)
Czech: aminokyselina (cs) f
Danish: aminosyre (da) c
Dutch: aminozuur (nl) n
Esperanto: amina acido
Finnish: aminohappo (fi)
French: acide aminé (fr) m
Galician: aminoácido (gl) m
German: Aminosäure (de) f
Greek: αμινοξύ (el) n ‎(aminoxý)
Ido: amin-acido (io)
Irish: ^{(please verify)}aimínaigéad (ga) m

Italian: amminoacido (it) m
Japanese: アミノ酸 (ja) ‎(あみのさん, amino-san)
Latvian: aminoskābe (lv) f
Norwegian:

Bokmål: aminosyre (no) m, f

Nynorsk: aminosyre f
Polish: aminokwas (pl) m
Portuguese: aminoácido (pt) m
Serbo-Croatian: aminokiselìna f
Spanish: aminoácido (es) m
Swedish: aminosyra (sv) c
Turkish: aminoasit

Coordinate terms

amino acids

External links

amino acid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia