Amino Acid Properties

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

Structure of amino acids (Lehninger: Principles of Biochemistry).

http://www.geneinfinity.org/images/aminoacids.jpg

Amino Acid Properties (Livingstone, C. D. and Barton, G. J. (1993)

http://www.jalview.org/help/html/misc/properties.gif

pKa of amino acids

http://www.geneinfinity.org/images/aapks.jpg

The Amino Acid Repository

A.A. properties of standard amino acids and amino acids in proteins (mass, surface, volume, pKa, pI, solubility, density of amino acids, hydrophobicity, solvent accessibility, Ramachandran plots).

http://www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE_AA.html

Amino Acid Information

http://prowl.rockefeller.edu/aainfo/contents.htm

Beavis Amino Acid Information Site

http://swift.cmbi.kun.nl/swift/future/aainfo/

Amino acid indices, substitution matrices and pair-wise contact potentials

AAindex is a database of numerical indices representing various physicochemical and biochemical properties of amino acids and pairs of amino acids.

http://www.genome.jp/aaindex

Nomenclature and Symbolism for Amino Acids and Peptides

http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/AminoAcid/

Protein Hydrophobicity Plots

Input a protein sequence and obtain plots that characterize its hydrophobic character, which may be useful in predicting membrane-spanning domains, potential antigenic sites and regions that are likely exposed on the protein's surface.

http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/molkit/hydropathy/index.html

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