Index to Course Material Index to Section 2
These diagrams of the 20 amino acids which occur naturally in proteins have been produced by PPS student Jens J Loesel of the Thymine Group.
They illustrate the chirality of the amino acids: bonds marked indicate respectively bonds "going into the screen", (dashed lines) and bonds "coming out of the screen" (solid lines). The narrow end of these bonds is in the plane of the screen and represents the chiral centre.
Glycine Alanine Valine
Leucine Isoleucine
Serine Threonine
Aspartic Acid Glutamic Acid
Asparagine Glutamine
Lysine Arginine
Cysteine Methionine
Histidine Proline
Phenylalanine Tyrosine Tryptophan
Last updated 28th Jan '96