GC: nf

S: FAO – http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US19750011310 (last access: 26 October 2016); AMINO – http://www.aminoacidsguide.com/Ala.html (last access: 26 October 2016).

N: 1. From German Alanin, irregular from Aldehyd aldehyde.
First Known Use: 1850.
A simple nonessential crystalline amino acid C3H7NO2 formed especially by the hydrolysis of proteins—abbreviation Ala.
2. Alanine is a hydrophobic molecule. It is ambivalent, meaning that it can be inside or outside of the protein molecule. The α carbon of alanine is optically active; in proteins, only the L-isomer is found.
3. An aliphatic nonpolar amino acid, with a one-carbon side chain, considered to be a dibasic acid in its fully protonated form, which can donate two protons during its complete titration with a base.

S: 1. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alanine (last access: 26 October 2016). 2. BPBA – http://www.biology.arizona.edu/BIOCHEMISTRY/problem_sets/aa/alanine.html (last access: 26 October 2016). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – http://goo.gl/a8YueS (last access: 26 October 2016).

SYN: 2-aminopropionic acid, alpha-aminopropionic acid.

S: TERMIUM PLUS – http://goo.gl/a8YueS (last access: 26 October 2016)

CR: amino acid, carnitine, protein, glucagon, ubiquitin.