Arginine

Abreviation               Single Letter Code

Arg                             R

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Infomation

Arginine is one of the twenty amino acids. It is most commonly found in its stereotypical L-isomeric formation and is a polar, positively charged molecule.

Due to the molecules charge it can sometimes be found located in the functional part of a protein conforming a pore.

References

The Biology Project,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona. 2003