Asparagine

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.

Synthesis

                          (transaminase)                                (asparagine synthase)

Oxaloacetate                   ⇒                        Aspartate                  ⇒                     Asparagine

                 glutamate   →  alpha-ketoglutarate               glutamine  →     glutamate

                                                                                     ATP   →  AMP + PPi

References

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