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β-Glutamic acid

Catalog No. G1763 Name Sigma Aldrich
CAS Number 1948-48-7 Website http://www.sigmaaldrich.com
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SYNONYMS

Title
β-谷氨酸
IUPAC name
3-aminopentanedioic acid
IUPAC Traditional name
isoglutamic acid
Synonyms
3-Aminopentanedioic acid

DATABASE IDS

CAS Number 1948-48-7
MDL Number MFCD00056698
PubChem SID 24895076

PROPERTIES

Empirical Formula (Hill Notation) C5H9NO4
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German water hazard class 3

DETAILS

Description (English)
Biochem/physiol Actions
β-Glutamic acid (β-Glu) is used as an osmolyte in many archaea. β-Glutamic acid may be used as a substrate to study the specificity and kinetics of archaeal and bacterial glutamine synthetase (GS) enzymes. β-Glutamic acid is used to study primitive mechanisms of polypeptide formation.

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