β-Glutamic acid (β-Glu) is used as an osmolyte in many archaea. β-Glutamic acid may be used as a substrate to study the specificity and kinetics of archaeal and bacterial glutamine synthetase (GS) enzymes. β-Glutamic acid is used to study primitive mechanisms of polypeptide formation.
Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society, 7(5), 250-261 (2001-06-29)
A new synthesis of orthogonally protected diaminoglutaric acid containing peptides using the Ugi four component condensation is presented. To demonstrate that this method is useful to replace cystine by diaminoglutaric acid in biologically interesting peptides, we built up two cyclic
Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, 28(3), 245-257 (1998-06-05)
We have studied the accumulation of long oligomers of beta-amino acids on the surface of minerals using the 'polymerization on the rocks' protocol. We find that long oligopeptides of beta-glutamic acid which cannot be formed in homogeneous aqueous solution are
Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, 38(3), 211-242 (2008-03-18)
The present paper offers a review of recent (post-1980) work on amino acid adsorption and thermal reactivity on oxide and sulfide minerals. This review is performed in the general frame of evaluating Bernal's hypothesis of prebiotic polymerization in the adsorbed
Biochimica et biophysica acta, 992(3), 320-326 (1989-09-15)
13C- and 15N-NMR spectroscopy have been used to identify beta-aminoglutaric acid (beta-glutamic) as a major soluble component of the thermophilic, autotrophic marine methanogen Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus. This rare, non-protein amino acid has been recognized as a major dissolved free amino acid
Separate receptors are recognized for the excitation of mammalian neurones by (a) L-glutamic and quisqualic acids and (b) N-methyl-D-aspartic (NMDA), and other amino acids which have conformationally restricted molecules. Several other compounds, both agonists and antagonists, have been examined, and
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