Practice question
Question
Which of the following is a non-natural amino acid?
Explanation
β-alanine is positional isomer of alanine where amino group shifts to beta carbon, not encoded by codons and not found in proteins. Natural amino acids like arginine, proline and tryptophan are 20 canonical proteinogenic L-alpha amino acids incorporated translationally.
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