释义 |
glu·tam·ic acid \(ˈ)glü|tamik-\ noun Etymology: glutamic International Scientific Vocabulary glut- (from gluten) + amic (in amic acid) : a crystalline amino dicarboxylic acid HOOCCH2CH2CH(NH2)COOH that exists in three optically isomeric forms and occurs usually as the dextrorotatory l-form both free and combined in glutamine and many proteins in plants and animals, that is usually obtained by hydrolysis of gluten or from the waste waters of beet-sugar manufacture or by fermentation, and that takes part in transaminations and related metabolic reactions in the living organism; α-amino-glutaric acid |