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Symbols Used to Represent Amino Acids in Protein Sequences

Single letter code Amino acid Three letter code
A

Alanine

Ala

B Asparagine or Aspartic acid ASx
C Cystine Cys
D Aspartic acid Asp
E Glutamic acid Glu
F Phenylalanine Phe
G Glycine Gly
H Histidine His
I Isoleucine Ile
K

Lysine

Lys
L Leucine Leu
M Methionine Met
N Asparagine

Asn

P Proline Pro
Q Glutamine Gln
R Arginine Arg
S Serine Ser
T Threonine Thr
V Valine Val
W

Tryptophan

Trp
X Any amino acid Xaa
Y Tyrosine Tyr
Z Glutamine or Glutamic acid Glx