Alanine

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(CC) Image: David E. Volk Structure of alanine, one of the common amino acids.
(CC) Image: David E. Volk
Structure of alanine, one of the common amino acids.

Alanine is the second smallest of the twenty common amino acids used by living organisms to build proteins. It is one of the non-polar amino acids. The side chain of alanine is a methyl group, CH3.

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