Biol. Bull. Sign up for etocs!
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Biol Bull 173: 252-259. (August 1987)
© 1987 Marine Biological Laboratory
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by FELBECK, H.
Right arrow Articles by WILEY, S.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by FELBECK, H.
Right arrow Articles by WILEY, S.

FREE D-AMINO ACIDS IN THE TISSUES OF MARINE BIVALVES

HORST FELBECK 1 and SANDRA WILEY 1

1 University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Biology Research Division, A-002, La Jolla, California 92093

Seventeen species of marine bivalves were surveyed for the presence of free D-alanine, D-aspartate, and D-valine in their tissues. D-aspartate was found in several species in concentrations approaching those of L-aspartate. D-alanine was detected—particularly in lucinid and vesicomyid clams—at levels exceeding manyfold those of L-alanine. D-valine was absent in all cases. A test of a hydrolysate of bulk soluble proteins of Lucinoma aequizonata, a species characterized by extremely high levels of D-alanine, showed no major incorporation of D-alanine into proteins. The implications of these results, for previously published analytical data and for human nutrition, are discussed.

Submitted on September 9, 1986
Accepted on May 28, 1987




This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J DAIRY SCIHome page
S. Rubio-Barroso, M. J. Santos-Delgado, C. Martin-Olivar, and L. M. Polo-Diez
Indirect Chiral HPLC Determination and Fluorimetric Detection of D-Amino Acids in Milk and Oyster Samples
J Dairy Sci, January 1, 2006; 89(1): 82 - 89.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1987 by the Marine Biological Laboratory.