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Asparagine is a non-essential amino acid. Its abbreviations are Asn or N, and its codons are AAU or AAC.
It provides an important site for asparagine-linked glycosylation (N-glycosylation) within peptides [1].
Synthesis
(transaminase) (asparagine synthase)
Oxaloacetate ⇒ Aspartate ⇒ Asparagine
glutamate → alpha-ketoglutarate glutamine → glutamate
ATP → AMP + PPi
References
Berg, J. M., Tymoczko, J. L., & Stryer, L. (2002). Biochemistry (5th ed.). New York: W.H. Freeman.
- ↑ Kenneth W. Joy, Robert J. Ireland and Peter J. Lea, 'Asparagine Synthesis in Pea Leaves, and the Occurrence of an Asparagine Synthetase Inhibitor' Plant Physiology (1983) 73:165-168