Amino Acid Table

Residues ala arg asn asp cys glu gln gly his ile leu lys met phe pro ser thr trp tyr val
  A R N D C E Q G H I L K M F P S T W Y V
 acidic       ●   ●                            
 acyclic ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●   ● ● ● ●     ● ●     ●
 aliphatic ●             ●   ● ●                 ●
 aromatic                 ●         ●       ● ●  
 basic   ●             ●     ●                
 buried ●       ●         ● ●   ● ●       ●   ●
 charged   ●   ●   ●     ●     ●                
 cyclic                 ●         ● ●     ● ●  
 hydrophobic ●             ●   ● ●   ● ● ●     ● ● ●
 large   ●       ● ●   ● ● ● ● ● ●       ● ●  
 medium     ● ● ●                   ●   ●     ●
 negative       ●   ●                            
 neutral ●   ●   ●   ● ● ● ● ●   ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
 polar   ● ● ● ● ● ●   ●     ●       ● ●      
 positive   ●             ●     ●                
 small ●             ●               ●        
 surface   ● ● ●   ● ● ● ●     ●     ● ● ●   ●  
More Amino Acid Properties
    

    

      
Amino acid

      
3-letter
code

      
1-letter
code

      
MW (Da)

      
Structure

    

    

      Alanine
      Ala
      A
      89.1
      CH3-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Arginine
      Arg
      R
      174.2 
      HN=C(NH2)-NH-(CH2)3-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Asparagine
      Asn
      N
      132.1 
      H2N-CO-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Aspartic Acid
      Asp
      D
      133.1
      HOOC-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Cysteine
      Cys
      C
      121.2
      HS-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Glutamic Acid
      Glu
      E
      147.1
      HOOC-(CH2)2-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Glutamine
      Gln
      Q 
      146.1
      H2N-CO-(CH2)2-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Glycine
      Gly
      G
      75.1
      NH2-CH2-COOH
    

    

      Histidine
      His
      H
      155.2
      NH-CH=N-CH=C-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH
|__________|                 		
    

    

      Isoleucine
      Ile
      I 
      131.2
      CH3-CH2-CH(CH3)-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Leucine
      Leu
      L 
      131.2
      (CH3)2-CH-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Lysine
      Lys
      K
      146.2
      H2N-(CH2)4-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Methionine
      Met
      M
      149.2
      CH3-S-(CH2)2-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Phenylalanine
      Phe
      F
      165.2
      Ph-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Proline
      Pro
      P
      115.1
      NH-(CH2)3-CH-COOH
|_________|      		
    

    

      Serine
      Ser
      S
      105.1 
      HO-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Threonine
      Thr
      T
      119.1
      CH3-CH(OH)-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Tryptophan
      Trp
      W
      204.2
      Ph-NH-CH=C-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH
|_______|                 		
    

    

      Tyrosine
      Tyr
      Y 
      181.2
      HO-p-Ph-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH
    

    

      Valine
      Val
      V
      117.1
      (CH3)2-CH-CH(NH2)-COOH
Structure of amino acids
courses.cm.utexas.edu/jrobertus/ch339k/overheads-1/ch5-amino-acids.jpg
pKa of amino acids
courses.cm.utexas.edu/jrobertus/ch339k/overheads-1/table_3-1.jpg
mass, surface, volume, pKa, pI, solubility, density of amino acids
www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE_AA.html#Properties
A.A. Hydrophobicity scales
www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE_AA.html#Hydrophobicity
Postranslational modifications of amino acids in proteins
www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE_AA.html#Inproteins
Properties of amino acids in proteins
www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE_AA.html#Inproteins
Amino Acid Information
prowl.rockefeller.edu/aainfo/contents.htm
Amino acid indices, substitution matrices and pair-wise contact potentials
www.genome.jp/aaindex/
Nomenclature and Symbolism for Amino Acids and Peptides
www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/AminoAcid/