Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Lecture notes on essential ,semi-essential and Non-essential amino acids

Essential amino acids
 Isoleucine, Leucine, Threonine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Tryptophan, and Valine are
essential amino acids. The aminoacids whose carbon skeleton cannot be synthesized by human beings and so preformed  amino acids are to be taken in food for normal growth. S.
Semi-essential amino acids
Histidine and arginine are semi-indispensable amino acids. Growing children require them in food.
But they are not essential for the adult individual.
 Non-essential
The remaining 10 amino acids are non-essential, because their carbon skeleton can be synthesized
Arginine,cysteine,aspartine,glutamine etc



Selenocysteine  is the  21st amino acid present in human proteins. An amino acid is given the individual status, when it is incorporated as such into proteins during protein synthesis, and having a separate codon. Selenocysteine is present in some enzymes.
Pyrrolysine  is known as the 22nd amino acid. Pyrrolysine is a lysine in an amide linkage
to substituted-pyrroline-5-carboxylate. It is present in methyl transferase enzymes of certain bacteria.

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