l-Aspartate: An Essential Metabolite for Plant Growth and Stress Acclimation

• Published in: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 26; no. 7; p. 1887
• Main Authors: Han, Mei, Zhang, Can, Suglo, Peter, Sun, Shuyue, Wang, Mingyao, Su, Tao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 26.03.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: Amino acids; aspartate; aspartate aminotransferase; aspartate transporter/carrier; Biosynthesis; Carbon; Cell growth; compartmentation; Dehydrogenases; Enzymes; Glucose; hormone; Kinases; Metabolism; Metabolites; Nitrogen; Phosphorylation; Plastids; Polyamines; Prokaryotes; Review; Senescence; stress; compartmentation; stress; aspartate; aspartate transporter/carrier; aspartate aminotransferase; hormone

L-aspartate (Asp) serves as a central building block, in addition to being a constituent of proteins, for many metabolic processes in most organisms, such as biosynthesis of other amino acids, nucleotides, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle and glycolysis pat...