Environmental Engineering Reference
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Table 4.2
List of amino acids as potential platform molecules.
Amino acid
Structure
Typical wt% (dry) of amino
acid in agricultural waste
Alanine (Ala)
0.2-3.4% (sorghum
DDGS)
O
HO
NH
2
Arginine (Arg)
0.1-5.7% (jatropha seed
meal)
O
NH
N
H
NH
2
HO
NH
2
O
Asparagine
(Asn)
Included in value for
aspartic acid
NH
2
HO
NH
2
O
Aspartic acid
(Asp)
O
0.3-6.4% (jatropha seed
meal)
OH
HO
NH
2
O
O
Cysteine
(Cys)
0-1.1% (rapeseed meal,
5.2% available in poultry
feather meal)
HO
SH
NH
2
O
O
Glutamic
acid (Glu)
0.4-18.4% (sugarbeet
vinasse)
HO
OH
NH
2
O
O
Glutamine
(Gln)
Included in value for
glutamic acid
HO
NH
2
NH
2
