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Glossary

non-proteinogenic residue

Also: non-coded residue, unnatural amino acid

An amino acid that is not among the twenty encoded by the standard genetic code, such as D-isomers or synthetic analogues. Sequences containing them cannot be written unambiguously in one-letter code, so three-letter notation and a modification list are used instead.