AMINO GROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amino group mean? 

• AMINO GROUP (noun)
  The noun AMINO GROUP has 1 sense:

1. the radical -NH2

  Familiarity information: AMINO GROUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMINO GROUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The radical -NH2

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

amino; amino group

Hypernyms ("amino group" is a kind of...):

chemical group; group; radical ((chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amino group"):

glucosamine (an amino derivative of glucose that is a component of many polysaccharides)

 Context examples 

The amino group from glutamate is released by glutamate dehydrogenase to create an ammonium ion.

(Feeding Amino Groups into the Urea Cycle, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A compound of two or more amino acids where the alpha carbodxl group of one is bound to the alpha amino group of another.

(Peptide, NCI Thesaurus)

Ubiquitin is coupled to protein by a peptide bond between the ubiquitin C-terminal glycine and protein lysine alpha-amino groups.

(E3 Ubiquitin Ligase, NCI Thesaurus)

The metabolic pathways that lead to degradation of amino acids funnel their carbon chains into metabolic intermediates that generate energy, and their amino groups into the urea cycle to be excreted.

(Catabolic Pathways for Alanine, Glycine, Serine, Cysteine, Tryptophan, and Threonine, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Each has a central carbon with an amino group (-NH2), a carboxyl (-COOH) group and a side chain attached.

(Dietary Amino Acid, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Aspartate is then transaminated by aspartate transaminase to exchange its amino group onto alpha-ketoglutarate and be converted into oxaloacetate.

(Catabolic Pathway for Asparagine and Aspartate, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The transfer of the amino group from aspartate to alpha-ketobutyrate creates oxaloacetate, a Krebs cycle intermediate.

(Feeding Amino Groups into the Urea Cycle, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The general route of entry for amino acids into the urea cycle is through transamination, the transfer of their amino group to alpha-ketoglutarate to form glutamate.

(Feeding Amino Groups into the Urea Cycle, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)