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Aspartic

Aspartic \As*par"tic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.

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aspartic

a. Of or pertaining to aspartic acid or its derivatives

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Usage examples of "aspartic".

Could memory, he wondered, truly be coded into chains of valine, cysteine and aspartic acid?

These crystals were analyzed and it was reported that within each secretin molecule there existed 3 lysines, 2 arginines, 2 prolines, i histi-dine, i glutamic acid, i aspartic acid, and i methionine.

Glutamic acid (which differs from glutamine as aspartic acid differs from asparagine), 16.

Since most of the abbreviations consist of the first three letters of the name, they are not difficult to memorize: glycine gly alanine ala valine val leucine leu asparagine asp'Ntb aspartic acid asp glutamine ghrNH2 glutamic acid glu THE HUMAN BRAIN isoleucine proline phenylalanine tyrosine tryptophan serine threonine ileu pro phe tyr try ser thr lysine histidine lys his arginine methionine arg met cystine cysteine cy-S-cy-SH Of the abbreviations that are more than the first three letters of the names, ileu, asp-NH2, and ghrNH2 should be clear.