aminoalkanoic acid

Noun aminoalkanoic acid has 1 sense

• aminoalkanoic acid(n = noun.substance) amino acid - organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group; "proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids"
has particulars: alanine, asparagine, aspartic acid, canavanine, citrulline, cysteine, cystine, dihydroxyphenylalanine, dopa, essential amino acid, gaba, gamma aminobutyric acid, glutamic acid, glutaminic acid, glutamine, glycine, hydroxyproline, iodoamino acid, ornithine, proline, creatin, creatine, sarcosine, serine, thyronine, tyramine, tyrosine
is a kind of organic compound