Organic · Amino Acids & Proteins
Amino Acids & Proteins
Exam-focused revision notes on Amino Acids & Proteins for CSIR-NET Chemical Sciences, GATE Chemistry and IIT-JAM — the core concepts, the formulas worth memorising, the traps that cost marks, and a quick-recall table.
α-Amino acid structure
All twenty proteinogenic amino acids share an α-carbon carrying an amino group, a carboxyl group, a hydrogen and a side chain — and all but glycine are chiral.
What this note covers
- 1α-Amino acid structure
- 2Classification by side chain
- 3Zwitterion & acid–base behaviour
- 4Isoelectric point (pI)
- 5The peptide bond
- 6Levels of protein structure
- 7Sequencing
- 8Denaturation
- 9Common traps students miss
- 1030-second recall table
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