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Chemical Compound Review

aspartate     (2S)-2-aminobutanedioic acid

Synonyms: Asparagate, Asparatate, Aspatofort, Aminosuccinate, L-Asp, ...
 
 
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Disease relevance of aspartic acid

 

Psychiatry related information on aspartic acid

 

High impact information on aspartic acid

  • All apoptosis signaling pathways converge on a common machinery of cell destruction that is activated by a family of cysteine proteases (caspases) that cleave proteins at aspartate residues [11].
  • As a balanced mixture of amino acids is oxidized in the liver, nearly all carbon from glucogenic amino acids flows into the mitochondrial aspartate pool and is actively transported out of the mitochondria via the aspartate-glutamate antiport linked to proton entry [12].
  • Here we report a significant association between a polymorphism in the aspartic acid (D) repeat of the gene encoding asporin (ASPN) and osteoarthritis [3].
  • We entitle it Taspase1 as it initiates a class of endopeptidases that utilize an N-terminal threonine as the active site nucleophile to proteolyze polypeptide substrates following aspartate [13].
  • None of the 15 members had the C282Y mutation of the HFE gene; 5 of the 15 (as well as 5 healthy relatives) had another mutation of this gene, a substitution of aspartate for histidine at position 63, but none were homozygous for it [14].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of aspartic acid

 

Biological context of aspartic acid

 

Anatomical context of aspartic acid

 

Associations of aspartic acid with other chemical compounds

 

Gene context of aspartic acid

  • Our results indicate that the two transmembrane aspartate residues are critical for both presenilin-1 endoproteolysis and gamma-secretase activity, and suggest that presenilin 1 is either a unique diaspartyl cofactor for gamma-secretase or is itself gamma-secretase, an autoactivated intramembranous aspartyl protease [35].
  • We mutated an essential aspartate of the Ca(2+)-binding site of the synaptotagmin I C(2)A domain and expressed it in Drosophila lacking synaptotagmin I [36].
  • Localization of Rac2 via the C terminus and aspartic acid 150 specifies superoxide generation, actin polarity and chemotaxis in neutrophils [37].
  • Here we investigate the biological function of a naturally occurring PS1 splice variant (PS1 Deltaexon 8), which lacks the critical aspartate 257 [38].
  • DNA damage does not inhibit the kinase activity of Plk1 mutants in which the conserved threonine residue in the T-loop has been changed to aspartic acid, suggesting that DNA damage interferes with the activation of Plk1 [39].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of aspartic acid

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