A proteinogenic amino acid derivative resulting from reaction of L-arginine at the amino group, the carboxy group, or the guanidyl group, or from the replacement of any hydrogen of L-arginine by a heteroatom.
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Definition :
Any of the 23 alpha-amino acids that are precursors to proteins, and are incorporated into proteins during translation. The group includes the 20 amino acids encoded by the nuclear genes of eukaryotes together with selenocysteine, pyrrolysine, and N-formylmethionine. Apart from glycine, which is non-chiral, all have L configuration.