amino acid
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
amino acid /əˈmiːnəʊ, əˈmʌɪnəʊ/
▶noun Biochemistry any of a class of about twenty simple organic compounds which form the basic constituents of proteins and contain both a carboxyl (–COOH) and an amino (–NH2) group.
'amino acid' also found in these Oxford entries:
alanine
- arginine
- asparagine
- aspartic acid
- code
- conserve
- cysteine
- deamination
- dipeptide
- essential
- GABA
- glutamic acid
- glutamine
- glycine
- histidine
- homocysteine
- isoleucine
- leucine
- lysine
- methionine
- minoxidil
- nonsense
- oligopeptide
- ornithine
- phenylalanine
- polypeptide
- proline
- sequence
- serine
- taurine
- threonine
- translate
- triplet code
- tryptophan
- tyrosine
- untranslated
- valine
- vitamin
