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amino acid

organic compound containing both amino and acidic functional groups, important in biology
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Summary

amino acid is a structural class of chemical entities[1]. It ranks in the top 0.29% of structural class of chemical entities entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (26,774 views/month, #3 of 1,029).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: amine[3], organic acid[4]
  • Part of: response to amino acid[5], cellular response to amino acid stimulus[6], vacuolar amino acid transmembrane transport[7], amino acid transmembrane transport[8], amino acid:proton symporter activity[9], amino acid:sodium symporter activity[10], amino acid:cation symporter activity[11], amino acid transport[12], amino acid transmembrane transporter activity[13], ABC-type amino acid transporter activity[14], amino acid:potassium symporter activity[15], amino acid export across plasma membrane[16], amino acid transmembrane export from vacuole[17], amino acid transmembrane import into vacuole[18]
  • Commons category: Amino acids[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Amino acids[20]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[21]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox amino acid[22]
  • Has characteristic: amphoterism[23]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C231[24]
  • Different from: amino carboxylic acid[25], proteinogenic amino acid[26]
  • Studied by: amino acids and metabolites in medical biochemistry[27]
  • Exact match: http://gbol.life/0.1/AminoAcid[28]

Why It Matters

amino acid has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-08-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Rationalwiki id → Amino_acid
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Rationalwiki id: Amino acid, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/93822180|Amino acid (#93822180)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/3055|RationalWiki]] #mix'"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2GaeaO
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0207406-aminokyseliny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0207406-aminokyseliny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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