glutamate

…amino acids, such as alanine, glutamate, and aspartate. To complete the synthesis of these compounds, amino groups are added to the appropriate carbon skeletons made from Gal3P. Sulfur amino acids such as cysteine are formed by adding sulfhydryl groups and amino groups. Other biosynthesis pathways lead from Gal3P to lipids,…

…as the amino acid l-glutamate, and monosodium glutamate (MSG) became the first flavour enhancer to be used commercially. The rich flavour associated with l-glutamate was called umami.

…glutamate dehydrogenase, in which the glutamate formed in [26c] is oxidized to α-oxoglutarate, another TCA cycle intermediate [28]. Either NADP⁺ or both NADP⁺ and NAD⁺ may serve as the hydrogen or electron acceptor, depending on the organism, and some organisms synthesize two enzymes, one of which prefers NADP⁺ and the…

Glutamate is the most abundant amino acid in the brain. Unlike acetylcholine, glutamate does not vary greatly in concentration from one region to the next. However, the dorsal gray matter of the spinal cord, which contains terminals of incoming dorsal roots, has large concentrations of…