amino acid

See also: aminoacid and aminoàcid

English

Etymology

See amine and acid. Likely a calque of German Aminosäure, which is attested earlier.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈminoʊ ˈæsɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

amino acid (plural amino acids)

1. (biochemistry) Any organic compound containing both an amino and a carboxylic acid functional group.
2. (biochemistry) Any of the twenty naturally occurring α-amino acids (having the amino, and carboxylic acid groups on the same carbon atom), and a variety of side chains, that combine, via peptide bonds, to form proteins.

Hyponyms

• essential amino acid
• nonessential amino acid
• See also Thesaurus:amino acid

Holonyms

• protein

Coordinate terms

amino acids

• alanine
• arginine
• asparagine
• aspartic acid
• cysteine
• glutamic acid
• glutamine
• glycine
• histidine
• isoleucine
• leucine
• lysine
• methionine
• phenylalanine
• proline
• serine
• threonine
• tryptophan
• tyrosine
• valine

Derived terms

• alpha-amino acid
• aminoacidemia
• aminoacidopathy
• aminoaciduria
• beta-amino acid
• bisamino acid
• casamino acid
• deduced amino acid sequence
• essential amino acid
• glyco-amino-acid
• glycosyl-amino-acid
• hyperaminoacidemia
• hypoaminoacidemia
• lipoamino acid
• nonessential amino acid
• non-essential amino acid
• selenoamino acid
• β-amino acid

Related terms

• imino acid

Translations

any organic compound containing amino and carboxylic acid

Arabic: حمض أميني m (ḥimḍ amīni) Catalan: aminoàcid m Chinese: Cantonese: 氨基酸 (on1 gei1 syun1) Hokkien: 胺基酸 (an-ki-sng) Mandarin: 氨基酸 (zh) (ānjīsuān), 胺基酸 (zh) (ānjīsuān, ànjīsuān) Czech: aminokyselina (cs) f Danish: aminosyre (da) c Dutch: aminozuur (nl) n Esperanto: amina acido Faroese: aminosýra f Finnish: aminohappo (fi) French: acide aminé (fr) m, aminoacide (fr) m Galician: aminoácido (gl) m Georgian: ამინომჟავა (aminomžava) German: Aminosäure (de) f Greek: αμινοξύ (el) n (aminoxý) Hungarian: aminosav (hu) Icelandic: amínósýra (is) f Ido: amin-acido (io) Indonesian: asam amino (id) Irish: aimínaigéad (ga) m Italian: amminoacido (it) m, aminoacido (it) m Japanese: アミノ酸 (ja) (アミノさん, amino-san) Javanese: asem amino Khmer: អាស៊ីតអាមីនេ (asit aminé) Korean: 아미노산 (ko) (aminosan) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: asîda amînî f Latvian: aminoskābe (lv) f Maori: waikawa amino Norwegian: Bokmål: aminosyre (no) m or f Nynorsk: aminosyre f Polish: aminokwas (pl) m Portuguese: aminoácido (pt) m Romanian: aminoacid (ro) m Russian: аминокислота́ (ru) f (aminokislotá) Serbo-Croatian: aminokiselìna f Slovak: aminokyselina f Spanish: aminoácido (es) m Swahili: asidi ya amino Swedish: aminosyra (sv) c Turkish: aminoasit Welsh: asid amino m

any of the twenty α-amino acids

Chinese: Mandarin: 氨基酸 (zh) (ānjīsuān) Czech: aminokyselina (cs) f Danish: aminosyre (da) c Dutch: aminozuur (nl) n Esperanto: amina acido Finnish: aminohappo (fi) French: acide aminé (fr) m, aminoacide (fr) m Galician: aminoácido (gl) m Georgian: ამინომჟავა (aminomžava) German: Aminosäure (de) f Greek: αμινοξύ (el) n (aminoxý) Hungarian: aminosav (hu) Ido: amin-acido (io) Irish: aimínaigéad (ga) m Italian: amminoacido (it) m, aminoacido (it) m Japanese: アミノ酸 (ja) (アミノさん, amino-san) Korean: 아미노산 (ko) (aminosan) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: asîda amînî f Latvian: aminoskābe (lv) f Norwegian: Bokmål: aminosyre (no) m or f Nynorsk: aminosyre f Polish: aminokwas (pl) m Portuguese: aminoácido (pt) m Serbo-Croatian: aminokiselìna f Spanish: aminoácido (es) m Swedish: aminosyra (sv) c Turkish: aminoasit Welsh: asid amino m

Further reading

• amino acid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia