Glutamine Archives -

Oxytocin is a peptide of nine amino acids (a nonapeptide) in the sequence cysteine-tyrosine-isoleucine-glutamine-asparagine-cysteine-proline-leucine-glycine-amide (Cys – Tyr – Ile – Gln – Asn – Cys – Pro – Leu – Gly – NH2, or CYIQNCPLG-NH2); its C-terminus has been converted to a primary amide and a disulfide bridge joins the cysteine moieties.

September 1, 2024

January 12, 2024

Argininosuccinate synthetase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ASS1 gene. Beaudet AL, O’Brien WE, Bock HG, Freytag SO, Su TS (Mar 1986).

July 3, 2022

The drug phencyclidine (more commonly known as PCP or ‘Angel Dust’) antagonizes glutamic acid non-competitively at the NMDA receptor. For the s