Translations:Amino acid/4/en

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Amino acids are formally named by the IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature in terms of the fictitious "neutral" structure shown in the illustration. For example, the systematic name of alanine is 2-aminopropanoic acid, based on the formula CH
3
−CH(NH
2
)−COOH
. The Commission justified this approach as follows: