Aspartic acid(or aspartate) is a non-essential amino acid, meaning that it is readily and naturally synthesized by mammals. It is one of the 20 building-block amino acids of proteins, 3-letter code is ASP, one letter code is D. The DNA codons encodingaspartic acidare GAC and GAU. The...
Some of these molecular changes may be used for age estimation, as already shown for aspartic acid racemization (AAR). Another example for an accumulation of damaged molecules is advanced glycation end products (AGEs). We examined, (1) if the correlation between the concentration of AGEs (...