The biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids is a vital metabolic process in plants that underpins both protein production and the generation of a myriad of specialised compounds. Central to this ...

The shikimate pathway is fundamental for the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids—tryptophan, tyrosine and phenylalanine—in plants, bacteria and fungi. This pathway, which is absent in mammals, has ...

A new amino acid transporter was identified from the Arabidopsis expressed sequence tag cDNAs by expressing the cDNA in a yeast amino acid transport mutant. Transport analysis of the expressed protein ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 68, No. 9 (Sep., 1971), pp. 2117-2120 (4 pages) L-Dopa, an intermediate in the biosynthesis of catecholamines, is ...

A recent cross-sectional study by Pariya Mostafazadeh and colleagues, published in Scientific Reports, found that higher ...

Seventeen patients with Parkinsonism were admitted to this study. All had been referred to us by their physicians, after treatment with several standard medications for relief of this disorder, ...

Arginine (Arg, R): Arginine has a guanidinium group as its R group, a complex nitrogen-containing group that is positively ...

Amino acids are the monomeric compounds that combine to form proteins. Essential amino acids cannot be made by the body, so must come from our diet. The essential amino acids are not synthesized in ...

Esters have been identified to act as a new and clean coupling partner for the carbon-carbon bond forming cross-coupling reaction to make useful compounds for pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and ...

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