It is the limiting amino acid in all cereal grains and it helps in fighting herpes by competing with arginine necessary for viral replication.
This sweet-tasting compound was first isolated by Drechsel in 1889, and it had its structure determined in 1902. It produces cadaverine when decarboxylated which helps produce the smell of a decayed organism, and also the metabolite carnitine. It is the limiting amino acid in all cereal grains and it helps in fighting herpes by competing with arginine necessary for viral replication. Along with leucine, this amino acid is ketogenic and is unable to contribute to glucose production. An amino acid on which protein acetylation occurs, FTP, identify this essential amino acid coded by two adenines followed by a purine, with an R group of a positively charged butyl amine, symbolized by the letter K.
This sweet-tasting compound was first isolated by Drechsel in 1889, and it had its structure determined in 1902.
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