AAX

AAX

See also: aax

Translingual

Symbol

AAX

1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Romeu Zema Airport, which serves Araxá, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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English

Noun

AAX

1. (biology) An amino acid that includes a side chain X.
   • 2013, Edward E Pryor Jr, Peter S Horanyi, Kathleen M Clark, Nadia Fedoriw, Sara M Connelly, Mary Koszelak-Rosenblum, Guangyu Zhu, Michael G Malkowski, Michael C Wiener, Mark E Dumont, “Structure of the integral membrane protein CAAX protease Ste24p”, in Holden Thorp, editor, Science, volume 339, number 6127, American Association for the Advancement of Science, DOI:10.1126/science.1232048, ISSN 1095-9203, OCLC 1644869, pages 1600-1604:

     Isoprenylation is followed by cleavage of the AAX amino acid residues and, in some cases, by additional proteolytic cuts.

2. A plug-in format available for some DAWs.
   • 2020, Zac Changnon, Audio Production Basics with Reason Software, page 41:

     AAX is the only plug-in format supported in Pro Tools 11 and later. AAX plug-ins are not currently supported in any other (non-Avid) DAW,