Amino Acid Information

1. General information

   Chemical structures	IUPAC naming convention
   Protecting groups	Protecting groups (by amino acid)
   Solvent accessibility	Post-translation modifications

2. Suggested amino acid substitutions

   for solvent exposed residues	for interior residues
   based on the Dayhoff matrix	the PAM250 matrix
   scoring matrix comparison

3. Chemical properties

   Chemical classifications	Hydrophobicity scales
   Residue volume, area and pKa	Solubility, density and pI

4. Structural properties

   Peptide bond geometry	Chou-Fasman parameters
   Bond angles	Residue hydrogen bonding

5. Genetic properties

   The genetic code	Genetic code (non-cannonical)
   Mutation mass shifts	Nucleotide naming conventions

6. References
7. Authors

For additional information, try the Amino acid information page at FU-Berlin.

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© 1996 Ronald C. Beavis