The amino acid composition of wool
- 1 January 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 59 (1), 62-68
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0590062
Abstract
A sample of Australian Merino 64''s quality wool was subjected to a complete analysis for amino acids. N as % of total N was found to be:-alanine, 4.12, amide, 6.73, arginine, 19.1, aspartic acid, 4.38, cystine, 7.30, glutamic acid, 8.48, glycine, 6.29, histidine, 1.91, isoleucine, 2.44, leucine, 5.85, lysine, 3.92, methionine, 0.32, phenylalanine, 2.12, proline, 5.05, serine, 8.66, threonine, 5.12, trytophan, 0.82, tyrosine, 2.62, valine, 4.16, These are in general agreement with other analyses re-cently reported.Keywords
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