Hydrophobic amino acids

Phenylalanine
(Phe, F)
Tyrosine
(Tyr, Y)
Tryptophan
(Trp, W)
Methionine
(Met, M)
Leucine
(Leu, L)
Valine
(Val, V)
Isoleucine
(Ile, I)
Cysteine
(Cys, C)
Alanine
(Ala, A)
Proline
(Pro, P)

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Citation: M.J. Betts, R.B. Russell. Amino acid properties and consequences of subsitutions.
In Bioinformatics for Geneticists, M.R. Barnes, I.C. Gray eds, Wiley, 2003. Buy it at Wiley or Amazon.
Author: Rob Russell, Heidelberg University