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What's /sci/'s favorite aminoacid and why?

Mine is definitely tyrosine. It is used to make catecholamines, thyroid hormones and melanin, all really cool molecules. It's phosphorylation serves to transduct signals and activate/deactivate enzymes when they're on a protein.

It also has an aromatic ring, which I find amazing.

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4425678

Here's a list with the basics if you can't decide.

If you feel naughty you can pick something a little more obscure.

>> No.4425807

Mine is Selenocysteine, because she's so fucking badass that he uses a stop codon to be translated

>> No.4425865

Lysine.

The 1993 film Jurassic Park, which is based on the 1990 Michael Crichton novel Jurassic Park, features dinosaurs that were genetically altered so that they could not produce lysine.[40] This was known as the "lysine contingency," and was supposed to prevent the cloned dinosaurs from surviving outside the park, forcing them to be dependent on lysine supplements provided by the park's veterinary staff. Most vertebrates cannot produce lysine by default (it is an essential amino acid).

>> No.4425869

>>4425865
>lysine

so you have herpes, amirite?

>> No.4425878

>>4425869

Yeah. I was gonna put "because I have herpes," but Jurassic Park > my herpes

>> No.4425912

>>4425865

Because when you are a fucking T-rex and you eat a cow you don't assimilate its aminoacids, right?

>> No.4425927

>>4425912

No. You looking for /b/?

>> No.4425938

Leucine cus it activates mTOR

and helps me get mah swol on nah meen

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/131/3/861S.full

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>>4425643
My is alanine. Cos she is simple and small, without any rings and other overrated shit.

>> No.4425952

I'm a tryptophan man. It's an amazing molecule, and it's pathways to tryptamine > dimethyltyptamine are interesting due to their 'straight forwardedness'.

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>>4425945
Also I like tyr, cos kinase!!!

>> No.4425972

>>4425952

Being a tripfag myself, gotta love the tryp.

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Gamma Amino Butyric Acid

>> No.4426174

>>4426131

So overrated...

>>4425927

No, i'n not looking for nowhere. If you don't have a way to sintethise an aminoacid, and you're a metazoan, you can always fucking eat some food with that aminoacid.

>> No.4426187

I like Proline/Histidine because they're annoying to draw.

>> No.4426195

Glutamate, it tastes great.

Glycine tastes just awefully sweet.

>> No.4426198

Tryptophan, definitely.

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>>4426174
At least I went outside the traditional AA's...

>> No.4426734

>>4425912

Actually, that would be the only way to get lysine, since there is no animal that can syntetize it. It is an essential amino acid.

That was a bad one from the writers of Jurassic Park.

>> No.4427629

>>4426734

Aaand that's exactly what I was saying, thanks

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4427956

coolest aa ever

>> No.4427969

Pyrrolysine because it's the hipster of nonstandard amino acids.
Take that selenocystine fags.

>> No.4427989

>>4427969

Is there any human protein that uses pyrrolysine?

>> No.4428004

My favourite aminoacid is turtle

>> No.4428160

Im gonna go for Proline as the TF i am working on right now has a Proline-rich domain wich fucks up secondary structure and stuff....