Eviscerated sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax were irradiated by Cobalt-60 at commercial irradiation facility at dose of 2.5 and 5 kGy at 2–4°C. The influences of the irradiation on proximate, fatty acid and amino acid composition in cultured sea bass were investigated. Significant differences (P<0.0.5) were found between non-irradiated and irradiated sea bass in terms of moisture, protein, fat,...

When DL-&ltMniC acid-2-V was administered to rats by intraperitoneal injection (l), conversion to succinate via a-ketoglutarate was the primary route of catabolism. However, when glutamate was injected into the cecum of rats, carbon 2 was converted to the methyl carbon of acetate (I). Glutamic acid administered by stomach tube was metabolized by both of the above mentioned pathways (1). The pre...

Radioactive glutamic acid and N-acetylglutamic acid have been incubated with normal and wilted leaf discs and radioactivity recovered in uncombined proline. The discs which had been placed under moisture stress incorporated considerably more label in uncombined proline than did normal discs.In extracts of swiss chard leaves, both (14)C-N-acetylglutamic acid and glutamic acid are metabolized to ...

Recently it has been demonstrated that the amino acid, ornithine, is an efficient precursor of the pyrrolidine ring of nicotine in the tobacco plant (1,2). Although there is considerable evidence that ornithine and glutamie acid may give rise to the pyrrolidine ring of proline through a common intermediate in animal systems (3) and in microorganisms (4), there has been little study of this meta...

Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) is a kind of pharmacological and biological component and its application is wide and useful in Korea specially, becoming aging society in the near feature. GABA is request special dose for the purposed biological effect but the production of concentrated GABA is very difficult due to low concentration of glutamic acid existed in the fermentation broth. To increa...

Gale and his group have shown that (1) staphylococci grown "deficient" in glutamic acid can concentrate the free amino acid inside the cells, provided a source of eneigy is present (Gale, 1947; Taylor, 1947); (2) penicillin, in growthinhibitory amounts, prevents the uptake of glutamic acid by staphylococci if the organisms are first grown for a short period in the presence of the antibiotic (Ga...

A total of eighteen amino acids were determined quantitatively in the seminal plasma and spermatozoa of fowl semen. Glutamic acid was the major component in both fractions. In the spermatozoan fraction, only six amino acids were detected, namely glutamic acid, lysine, arginine, serine, aspartic acid and threonine. Except for serine and lysine, the amino acid concentrations in the spermatozoan f...

The characteristic wavelength at which a visual pigment absorbs light is regulated by interactions between protein (opsin) and retinylidene Schiff base chromophore. By using site-directed mutagenesis, charged amino acids in bovine rhodopsin transmembrane helix C were systematically replaced. Substitution of glutamic acid-134 or arginine-135 did not affect spectral properties. However, substitut...

Out of fifty-five Bacillus isolates obtained from ten different regional locations and sources, seven showed the ability to consistently produce specific extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) on rich as well as synthetic but nonspecific media which did not contain glutamic acid. The isolates were identified as either Bacillus licheniformis or Bacillus subtilis. The EPS from all isolates was r...