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yvi ([personal profile] yvi) wrote in [personal profile] jmtorres 2011-04-19 03:53 pm (UTC)

Re: this comment brought to you by a biochemistry prof

This isn't my specialty, but I suppose in theory all or almost all amino acids could be used in proteins. And "being" an amino acid just means that following a certain structure. The organic substituent can be pretty much anything.

Oh, and the other rather cool one is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenocysteine

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