Glutamic acid is an amino acid with the following structure:
H2N-CH(COOH)-CH2-CH2-COOH
It has three ionizable groups: the amino group (pKa1 = 2.19), the alpha-carboxyl group (pKa2 = 4.25), and the side chain carboxyl group (pKa3 = 9.67).
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