aspartic acid
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a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and occurring naturally in sugar beets and sugar cane
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Along with histidine 57 and aspartic acid 102, this serine residue constitutes the catalytic triad of the active site.
As with methanol and phenylalanine, intake of aspartic acid from aspartame is less than would be expected from other dietary sources.
At the 90th percentile of intake, aspartame provides only between 1% and 2% of the daily intake of aspartic acid.
A variant of this method, which has not been used commercially, uses unmodified aspartic acid, but produces low yields.
In the chemical synthesis, the two carboxyl groups of aspartic acid are joined into an anhydride, and the amino group is protected by converting it to a functional group that will not interfere in the next reaction.
In yeasts, the most common repeated amino acids are glutamine, glutamic acid, asparagine, aspartic acid and serine.