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Alanine
(A, Ala)
Ciro Santilli
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Biology
Level of organization of bodies
Molecular biology
Protein
Amino acid
Proteinogenic amino acid
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2025-07-16
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Alanine
is an
amino acid
represented by Ala or
A
in
protein
sequence
notation. GCU is one of its
codons
in the standard
genetic code
, and supplies the
second
residue
in the worked
gene expression
example.
[ref]
https://openstax.org/books/biology-2e/pages/15-1-the-genetic-code
.
OpenStax
Biology
2e, 15.
1
:
alanine
codons
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