monoaminomonocarboxylic

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monoaminomonocarboxylic (not comparable)

  1. (biochemistry) Having a single amino functional group and a single carboxyl or carboxylic acid group.
    • 1968, Robert Powell, Monosodium Glutamate and Glutamic Acid, page 46:
      This process relates to methods for separating the glutamic acid and aspartic acid from proline and monoaminomonocarboxylic acids present in hydrolyzed vegetable protein materials.
    • 1986, Georgiĭ Vasilʹevich Samsonov, Ion-exchange sorption and preparative chromatography of biologically active molecules, page 99:
      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.