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Oxazolyl alanine and thiazolyl alanine, arising from formal replacement of nitrogen in the imidazole side chain of histidine, are not found as natural amino acid metabolites. The pKa values indicate the lack of reactivity of the oxygen and sulfur atoms in those heterocycles as bases or nucleophiles.
