monoaminomonocarboxylic

adjective

Having a single amino functional group and a single carboxyl or carboxylic acid group.

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Meanings

adjectivemonoaminomonocarboxylic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiochemistryHaving a single amino functional group and a single carboxyl or carboxylic acid group.

    This process relates to methods for separating the glutamic acid and aspartic acid from proline and monoaminomonocarboxylic acids present in hydrolyzed vegetable protein materials.

    1968, Robert Powell, Monosodium Glutamate and Glutamic Acid, page 46
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    A fact of great importance for the sorption of amino acids onto ionites is that monoaminomonocarboxylic acids exist as cations and not zwitterions when sorbed onto sulfocationites from neutral solutions.

    1986, Georgiĭ Vasilʹevich Samsonov, Ion-exchange sorption and preparative chromatography of biologically active molecules, page 99
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