Mutations in L-amino acid transporters (LATs) can lead to a wide range of conditions, such as autism, hearing loss and aminoacidurias. This study presents key data on how amino acids bind to these ...

While humans have an esthetic liking for symmetry in everything, nature prefers asymmetric, single-handed forms when it comes to amino acids—the building blocks of proteins, and, by extension, all ...

After trawling through thousands of protein sequences in online databases, researchers have landed a prize catch: a handful of enzymes that conveniently turn amino acids into much more valuable ...

Both glutamic acid and glutamine are amino acids. And while their names sound similar and they both come from the same family of amino acids known as the glutamates, they are different. Glutamic acid ...