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Is Glycine op...
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Is Glycine optically inactive?
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Glycine:
The only chiral amino acid with a single Hydrogen atom on its side chain is Glycine.
Due to the absence of asymmetric carbon atoms, Glycine is optically inactive and does not spin plane polarised light.
It is encoded by all codons that start with the letter GG, including GGU, GGC, GGA, and GGG, and is the most fundamental stable amino acid.
Glycine is essential for the formation of alpha-helices in secondary protein structure.
The multienzyme complex known as glycine synthase converts carbon dioxide, ammonia, and one carbon atom into glycine.
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