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Definition of Glutamic acid

1. Noun. An amino acid occurring in proteins; important in the nitrogen metabolism of plants; used in monosodium glutamate to enhance the flavor of meats.

Definition of Glutamic acid

1. Noun. (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid, ?-amino-glutaric acid, occurring widely in animal and plant tissues; the salt, monosodium glutamate is used as a flavour-enhancing seasoning. ¹

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Medical Definition of Glutamic acid

1. One of the 20 _ amino acids commonly found in proteins. Plays a central role in amino acid metabolism, acting as precursor of glutamine, proline and arginine. Also acts as amino group donor in synthesis by transamination of alanine from pyruvate and aspartic acid from oxaloacetate. Glutamate is also a neurotransmitter, the product of its decarboxylation is the inhibitory neurotransmitter amino butyrate (GABA). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Glutamic acid

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1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"Recovery of glutamic acid and betaine from extracts of the residue remaining from ... A. has improved his previous method for recovery of glutamic acid by ..."

2. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1917)
"[1912] states that glutamic acid is most rapidly obtained from the ... The remaining glutamic acid is obtained from the mother liquor by adding alcohol. ..."

3. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"glutamic acid. of Pennsylvania. The glutamic acid, yielded by proteins upon hydrolysis, is dextrorotatory. Crystals of glutamic acid are reproduced in Fig. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"glutamic acid forms normal and acid salts, the latter being the more general. ... 1899, 28, 123) isolated glutamic acid from the products of hydrolysis of ..."

5. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"investigators such as ABDERHALDEN and FUNK and SKRAUP and TURK have shown that the same quantities of glutamic acid can be obtained by the use of the two ..."

6. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1871)
"glutamic acid, C»NBW. ... a crystalline mixture of tyrosine, leucine, and glutamic acid, which may be separated by recrystallisation and treatment ..."

7. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1893)
"From casein they obtained by their method 29 per cent, of glutamic acid. By the decomposition of " reticulin," the new phosphorus-containing proteid, ..."

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