page_title: Dehydroamino acid
hierarchical_section_title: Dehydroamino acid
caption_attribution_description: English: chemical structure of methyl acetamidoacrylate
context_page_description: In biochemistry, a dehydroamino acid is an amino acids, usually with a C=C double bond in its side chain. Dehydroamino acids are not coded by DNA, but arise via post-transcriptional modification.
context_section_description: In biochemistry, a dehydroamino acid is an amino acids, usually with a C=C double bond in its side chain.  Dehydroamino acids are not coded by DNA, but arise via post-transcriptional modification.
caption: Methyl 2-acetamidoacrylate, by virtue of the N-acetyl group is a stabilized derivative of dehydroalanine.
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