Amino acids: properties
Sung to the Beverly Hillbillies melody:
Come an' listen to my story about the a-mi-nos
Five Al-i-phats kick off our show
Glycine, Alanine, Valine and then
Leucine and Iso make up half of ten.
Well the next thing you know are three aromats
phenylalanine(F) is right off the batt
Tyrosine has alcohol next to its ring
And tryptophan(W) has indole double ring thing.
Sulfur in Cysteine; it loves to bond
Sulfur Methionine is much more a snob
Alcoholic Serine, well wouldn't you know,
And Threonine's OH gives a warm glow.
Acid-aspartic(D) and glutamic(E) are ionized
With pK of 4, their protons are lysed,
asparagine(N) and glutamine(Q) play a different role
With amides they're neutral but they both have poles
lysine(K) and aRginine are the basic kind,
But Histidine's imidazole can't make up its mind,
Proline, the last one, coming at the end
It's imine, an oddball, proteins use to bend.
3 comments:
Thats one way to learn all that important stuff. Who knows you may become a song writer when this is all done!!
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Mom Arlene
I totally wish I would have had this song in anatomy lab. We used to do the same thing to memorize all sorts of lists (since anatomy forces you to memorize literally thousands of pieces-parts) and many sound similar, have similar functions and are spelled really closely. We used to get docked points for spelling them wrong, so I was always happy I learned to spell phonetically. It works 90% of the time. Mnemonic devices ROCK!!!
you do have that steel trap mind for lyrics....
The K-tel record of old TV theme songs will be playing in your OR and everyone will wonder why!
I miss you and I promise when I get back from Austin TX next week that I will call somehow
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