The cephalochordate amphioxus is the closest invertebrate relative to vertebrates. In this study, using HPLC technique, free L-amino acids (L-AAs) and D-aspartic acid (D-Asp) have been detected in the nervous system of the amphioxus Branchiostoma lanceolatum. Among other amino acids glutamate, aspartate, glycine, alanine and serine are the amino acids found at the greatest concentrations. As it...

Strong evidence indicates that virions of mammalian reoviruses undergo proteolytic processing by acid-dependent cellular proteinases as an essential step in productive infection. Proteolytic processing takes the form of a series of cleavages of outer-capsid proteins final sigma3 and mu1/mu1C. Previous studies showed an effect of both NH4Cl and E-64 on these cleavages, indicating that one or mor...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of d-aspartic acid on semen characteristics of ross 308 roosters. thirty 60-wk-old ross 308 roosters were randomly assigned into 6 groups and individually caged. all groups fed the same basal diet and orally administered with different levels of d-aspartic acid: 0(a-0), 40 (a-40), 80 (a-80), 120 (a-120), 160 (a-160), and 200 (a-200) mg/kg bw per ...

Heterotrophic conversion of l-aspartic acid to nitrification products by Aspergillus flavus was studied in a replacement incubation system. Numerous amino acids supported nitrification; aspartate and glutamate were about equivalent as the best sources of nitrate. Addition of sodium bicarbonate to the incubation system substantially enhanced nitrate formation for all nitrifiable amino acids exce...

Cairomycin B in the fermentation broths of Streptomyces sp. strain AS-C-19 accompanied cairomycin A and cairomycin C. The cairomycins are peptides with potent activity against gram-positive bacteria. On acid hydrolysis, cairomycin A yielded valine and aspartic acid, whereas cairomycin C yielded lysine, glycine, valine, leucine, and aspartic acid, as identified by paper and gas chromatography. T...

The incorporation of isotopic nitrogen from N15-aspartic acid, N15-glutamic acid, or N15(amide nitrogen)-glutamine into the nitrogens of the pyrimidine ring of hypoxanthine synthesized from glycine-l-Cl4 in pigeon liver extracts has been reported to be approximately equivalent to the incorporation of Cl4 from labeled glycine (1). It was proposed that biological similarity of the transaminating ...

y-Cyano-cr-L-aminobutyric acid is identified for the first time as a biological substance. This amino acid nitrile accumulates when inorganic cyanide is administered to young cultures of Chromobacferium violaceum strain D 341. Cyanide supplies the cyano group, and aspartic acid supplies carbon atoms 1 to 4. Biosynthesis of P-cyanoalanine also takes place and appears to be controlled by aspartic...