Amino Terminus at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Amino Terminus? An organic acid consisting of one or more amino (-NH2) units. Twenty essential L-amino acids are the fundamental structural elements of proteins. Each amino acid in a protein has a distinctive side chain (R-group), the characteristics of which determine t

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