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- Wilhelm Körner
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- Amino acid
- aspartate
- carbamoylaspartate
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Asparagine
chemical compound
Asparagine, an amino acid closely related to aspartic acid, and an important component of proteins. First isolated in 1932 from asparagus, from which its name is derived, asparagine is widely distributed in plant proteins. It is one of several so-called nonessential amino acids in warm-blooded animals: they can synthesize it from aspartic acid. The chemical structure of asparagine is
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