Bollettino della Societa italiana di biologia sperimentale 1979-07-15

[Oxidative deamination of beta-methylaspartic acid].

M R Dessì, G Floris

Index: Boll. Soc. Ital. Biol. Sper. 55(12) , 1189-95, (1979)

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Abstract

beta-methyl-aspartic acid is a substrate for beef kidney D-aspartate oxidase. The first product of a typical oxidative deamination, undergoes further spontaneous process of decarboxylation which gives as product, the alpha-keto-butyric acid.