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🩸 A chemical salt 🧪 Containing aspartic acid
aspartate

aspartate

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A chemical made from aspartic acid found in the body
  • noun
  • /æˈspɑːrˌteɪt/
  • Specialized
: aspartato
  • Protonation of the DFG aspartate, hung by Erh.
  • aspartate aminotransferase
  • aspartate transaminase
  • alanine and aspartate

It's two amino acids and it gets metabolized into phenylalanine and aspartate and then methanol, whichever, right?

Examples

  • The liver can produce oxaloacetate via the amino acid aspartate, for example, through the enzyme aspartate aminotransferase.

    Blog text (30)

  • It's two amino acids and it gets metabolized into phenylalanine and aspartate and then methanol, whichever, right?

    FoundMyFitness

  • An example of this would be aspartate under physiological conditions.

  • So that's going to add an aspartate molecule up there.

  • The liver can produce oxaloacetate via the amino acid aspartate, for example, through the enzyme aspartate aminotransferase.

    Blog text (30)

  • Asparagine is synthesized from aspartate with the reaction catalyzed by asparagine synthase.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The highest fall in Aspartate transaminase (AST) values was seen in group E (31.62, 34.22, and 35.92) at 20, 40, and 60 minutes.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Blood samples were collected for leucocyte counting, and measurement of packed-cell volume, serum aspartate and alanine aminotransferases, urea nitrogen, and creatinine.

    Academic text (1997)

  • To illustrate this principle of coincidence, we consider a well-characterized example of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR), an important regulator of synaptic plasticity.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The enzymatic conversion of aspartate to asparagine is essential for protein synthesis.

Surface Forms

aspartate singular
aspartates plural

Morphology

aspartate = aspartic (semi-transparent) = aspart + ate

Derived via the chemical suffix '-ate' from the combining form 'aspart-'; the formation is regular but requires subject-matter knowledge to interpret.

Etymology

Aspartate as a noun gets its name from aspartic acid (named after asparagus) plus the ending -ate, which means 'a salt or form of an acid'. So an aspartate is literally 'a salt or form' of aspartic acid.