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Glycine (Gly, G) is a nonpolar amino acid. It is the simplest of the 20 standard (proteinogenic) amino acids: its side chain is a hydrogen atom. Because there is a second hydrogen atom at the α carbon, glycine is not optically active. Since glycine has such a small side chain, it can fit into many places where no other amino acid can. For example, only glycine can be the internal amino acid of a collagen helix. Glycine is very evolutionarily stable at certain positions of some proteins (for example, in cytochrome c, myoglobin, and hemoglobin), because mutations that change it to an amino acid with a larger side chain could break the protein's structure. Most proteins contain only small quantities of glycine. A notable exception is collagen, which is about one-third glycine. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Glycine (Wikipedia)

A non-essential amino acid found primarily in gelatin and silk fibroin. It also inhibits neurotransmitters. Source: National Library of Medicine, MeSH 2006

Glycine is a hydrophilic amino acid with uncharged polar groups and is used in the biosynthesis of purines and porphyrins. Increased with nonketotic hyperglycinemia, arginosuccinic aciduria, carbamoyl phosphate synthetase deficiency, lysinuric protein intolerance, hyperprolinemia, iminoglycinuria, and ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency. Source: Regenstrief Institute

Glycine, a hydrophillic amino acid with uncharged polar groups, is a primary marker for nonketotic hyperglycinemia (glycine encephalopathy). Source: Regenstrief LOINC

Basic Part Properties

Part Display Name
Glycine
Part Type
Component (Describes the core component or analyte measured)
Created On
2000-05-04
Construct for LOINC Short Name
Glycine

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Language Variants Get Info

Tag Language Translation
zh-CN Chinese (China) 甘氨酸
Synonyms: Gly;氨基醋酸;革氨酸
fr-CA French (Canada) Glycine
et-EE Estonian (Estonia) Glütsiin
es-ES Spanish (Spain) Glicina
it-IT Italian (Italy) Glicina
tr-TR Turkish (Turkey) Glisin
ru-RU Russian (Russian Federation) Глицин
nl-NL Dutch (Netherlands) glycine
fr-BE French (Belgium) Glycine