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Wikipedia says there are 500 known amino acids. I take it you were talking about a domain involving fewer potential amino acids?
The 20 amino acids involved in protein creation.
Presumably the slightly greater than twenty that form the universal basis of biological protein polymers. In other words, the amino acids explicitly coded for by DNA.