Glycine is a nonessential small neutral amino acid containing 18.7% nitrogen. The nonessential amino acid glycine (Gly) is an inhibitory neurotransmitter. It is needed for the synthesis of peptides and proteins, creatine, glutathione, porphyrins, and purines, and for the conjugation of bile acid...
Membrane potential changes during transport of glycine as a neutral amino acid and nitrate in Lemna gibba Gl. FEBS Lett 88: 264–268Novacky A, Fischer E, Ullrich–Eberius CI, Lüttge U, Ullrich WR (1978) FEBS Lett 88: 264–267
Amino acids with the simplest structureGlycine is of the simplest structure in the 20 members of amino acid series, also known as amino acetate. It is a non-essential amino acid for the human body and contains both acidic and basic functional group inside its molecule. It exhibits as a stro...
Under a Creative Commons license open accessAbstract Collagen, the most widespread protein in animals, contains glycine as every third amino acid. This regular repetition of glycine residues is required for the tight packing of the collagen triple helix. In this work, we substitute glycine with its...
Structurally, the simplest amino acid is glycine, and it has a number of important yet distinct functions in the body. This review focuses on the different transport systems and the associated carrier proteins for glycine that are responsible for its movement across biological membranes. Transport pr...
AMINO acid transportGLYCINENEUROGLIADEPOLARIZATION (Cytology)ELECTROPHYSIOLOGYBackground/Aims: The neutral, non-essential amino acid glycine has manifold functions and effects under physiological and pathophysiological conditions. Besides its function as a neurotransmitter in the central nervous system...
The level of glycine in the brain and in the spinal cord is regulated by administering a neutral amino acid composition to a human wherein increased or decreased brain and spinal cord levels of glycine is effected when the composition contains increased or decreased amounts of threonine or a pr...
oncogenesis by fuelling one-carbon and folate metabolism49. This is indirectly supported by a suggestive association between folic acid supplementation and cancer incidence50. Furthermore, it was recently shown that a serine and glycine-depleted diet improves treatment response and survival in murine ...
Each group has mostly > 90% within group identity at the amino acid residue level, and between group identities is mostly less than 50%. There are also stand-alone lysins with no apparent homologues yet reported. There has not been an attempt to assign a species to each of the endolysin...
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