Saturday, August 13, 2011

What is a Hydrogen donor and acceptor when talking about amino acids?

In my notes, it says that aspartate, glutamate, asparagine, and glutamine are some examples of amino acids that are Hydrogen donors. Lysine, arginine, and histidine are examples of acceptors. What is it about these amino acids that makes them this way? Please talk about their molecular structure, whatever polarities they might have, charges, etc.

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