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Preferred term

glycine  

Definition

  • Glycine (symbol Gly or G; ) is an amino acid that has a single hydrogen atom as its side chain. It is the simplest stable amino acid (carbamic acid is unstable), with the chemical formula NH2-CH2-COOH. Glycine is one of the proteinogenic amino acids. It is encoded by all the codons starting with GG (GGU, GGC, GGA, GGG). (From Wikipedia)

In other languages

  • French

  • acide aminoacétique
  • glycocolle

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