Aspartic Acid

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-002200",
  "term": "Aspartic Acid",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "A non-essential amino acid in humans, Aspartic Acid has an overall negative charge and plays an important role in the synthesis of other amino acids and in the citric acid and urea cycles. Asparagine, arginine, lysine, methionine, isoleucine, and some nucleotides are synthesized from aspartic acid. Aspartic acid also serves as a neurotransmitter.",
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/aspartic-acid/"
}