Download The shapes of some amino acid molecules

The shapes of some amino acid molecules
O
O
O
H3C
OH
H2N
OH
glycine
NH2
alaninine
HS
OH
NH2
cysteine
Click for a useful website that allows you to compare the shapes of amino acids
For a more detailed look at the shapes of amino acid molecules try
this link
http://info.bio.cmu.edu/Courses/Biochem
Mols/AAViewer/AAVFrameset.htm
It allows you to look at the 3-D images of amino acids side-by-side,
and to look at the optical isomerisation of alanine (the D and L
forms of the molecules)
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