Aspartic acid


Description:
Aspartic Acid is a non-essential amino acid in humans, Aspartic Acid has an overall negative charge and plays an important role in the synthesis of other amino acids and in the citric acid and urea cycles. Asparagine, arginine, lysine, methionine, isoleucine, and some nucleotides are synthesized from aspartic acid. Aspartic acid also serves as a neurotransmitter. (NCI04)

Property Value
Metabolite name Aspartic acid
AMDB ID 30
PubChem CID 5960
HMDB ID HMDB0000191
KEGG ID N/A
ChEBI ID N/A
Molecular formula C4H7NO4
Molecular weight 133.1
Monoisotopic mass 133.037507709
IUPAC name (2S)-2-aminobutanedioic acid

Synonyms:

Aspartate, Aspartic acid, L-Aspartic acid


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