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The chemical reactions and pathways involving amino acids, organic acids containing one or more amino substituents. Activation of an amino acid for incorporation into a peptide by a nonribosomal process. The chemical reactions and pathways involving any organic compound that is weakly basic in character and contains an amino or a substituted amino group, as carried out by individual cells. Amines are called primary, secondary, or tertiary according to whether one, two, or three carbon atoms are attached to the nitrogen atom. The modification of an amino acid to an active form, for incorporation into a peptide, protein or other macromolecule. The chemical reactions and pathways by which the various amino acids become bonded to their corresponding tRNAs. The most common route for synthesis of aminoacyl tRNA is by the formation of an ester bond between the 3'-hydroxyl group of the most 3' adenosine of the tRNA, usually catalyzed by the cognate aminoacyl-tRNA ligase. A given aminoacyl-tRNA ligase aminoacylates all species of an isoaccepting group of tRNA molecules. The chemical reactions and pathways involving carboxylic acids, any organic acid containing one or more carboxyl (COOH) groups or anions (COO-). The chemical reactions and pathways involving amino acids, organic acids containing one or more amino substituents, and compounds derived from amino acids, as carried out by individual cells.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: amino acid activation
Acc: GO:0043038
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The modification of an amino acid to an active form, for incorporation into a peptide, protein or other macromolecule.
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0043038 - amino acid activation (interactive image map)
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