Skip to Content
Merck

[Oxidative deamination of beta-methylaspartic acid].

Bollettino della Societa italiana di biologia sperimentale (1979-07-15)
M R Dessì, G Floris
PMID553534
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.