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Definition of Amino

1. Noun. The radical -NH2.

2. Adjective. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.

Definition of Amino

1. Adjective. (chemistry) Relating to an amine. ¹

2. Noun. (chemistry) The amine functional group. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Amino

1. containing an amine united with a nonacid radical [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amino

amine ylide aminediyl aminediyls amineptine aminergic amines aminic aminimide aminimides aminities

aminity aminium aminium ion aminium ions aminiums amino (current term) amino- amino-terminal amino-terminal residue amino acid

amino acid activating enzyme amino acid activation amino acid analysis amino acid chloromethyl ketones amino acid dehydrogenases amino acid isomerases amino acid naphthylamidases amino acid neurotransmitters amino acid oxidases amino acid oxidoreductases

Literary usage of Amino

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1917)
"DONALD D. VAN SLYKE Rockefeller Institute CHEMICAL NATURE OP THE amino-ACIDS THIS discussion is inserted because it will be necessary, for the ready ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Now, on hydrolysis (by boiling with acids, or by the action of the ferments known as proteases), these chains of amino acids can be again split up, ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1910)
"The modern conception of the protein molecule as a huge complex of amino acids riveted ... Fischer has strung together eighteen of these amino acids in an ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Percentages of D amino acid enantiomers and concentrations (nmole/g) of amino acids in Saanich Inlet sediments. The approximate age and weights of the cores ..."

5. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"Note that the amino-acids are all of the a type, in which the NH2 is next to the ... These amino-acids combine together in the way already indicated, ..."

6. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1908)
"Combinations of amino Adds with Carbonic Add. The sodium and barium salts of the monoamino acids have a strongly alkaline reaction and are highly ..."

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