Definition of Aspartic acid

1. Noun. A crystalline amino acid found in proteins and occurring naturally in sugar beets and sugar cane.

Generic synonyms: Amino Acid, Aminoalkanoic Acid

Definition of Aspartic acid

1. Noun. (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid, L-?-amino-succinic acid, (C4H7NO4), found in animal protein and in sugar beet etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Aspartic acid

1. One of the twenty naturally occurring amino acids. Has the following chemical characteristics: pKa1 pKa2 pKa3 pI Water Solubility (30deg C)2.09-3.86 9.82 2.97 0.6 (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspartic Acid

aspartate
aspartate-alpha-decarboxylase
aspartate-ammonia ligase
aspartate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase
aspartate-tRNA ligase
aspartate 1-decarboxylase
aspartate 4-decarboxylase
aspartate N-acetyltransferase
aspartate aminotransferase
aspartate ammonia-lyase
aspartate carbamoyltransferase
aspartate kinase
aspartate transaminase
aspartates
aspartic
aspartic acid (current term)
aspartic acid 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase
aspartic proteinases
aspartokinase
aspartokinase homoserine dehydrogenase
aspartokinases
aspartyl
aspartylglucosamine
aspartylglucosaminidase
aspartylglucosaminuria
aspartylglucosylaminase
aspartylglutamate
aspartylglycosamine
aspartylglycosaminidase
aspartylglycosaminuria

Literary usage of Aspartic acid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1856)
"aspartic acid evaporated to dryness with 12 pts. of nitric acid, cither remains unaltered ... Sulphate of aspartic acid. — aspartic acid dissolves without ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"As aspartic acid is soluble in sea-water, it is probably employed by the animal in ... aspartic acid is prepared by hydrolysing ' asparagine by means of ..."

3. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1917)
"Glutamic acid and aspartic acid form silver salts which are not easily soluble ... was able to isolate aspartic acid as silver salt and Kutscher [1903] has ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"As aspartic acid is soluble in sea-water, it is probably employed by the animal in ... aspartic acid is prepared by hydrolysing asparagine by means of ..."

5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"To prepare active aspartic acid, asparagine is boiled : 1. With water and oxide of lead, as long as ammonia continues to escapo, the water being replaced as ..."

6. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1893)
"It should be dissolved in HOI, and decomposed by means of H8S, when white crystalline platelets of aspartic acid will separate out. ..."

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