"Amino Acid: New Insights and Roles in Plant and Animal" ed. by Toshiki Asao and Md. Asaduzzaman

This volume provides useful information on new aspects of amino acid structure, synthesis reactions, dietary application in animals, and metabolism in plants.

Section 1 includes chapters that describe the therapeutic uses, antiallergic effects, new aspects in the D-amino acid structure, historical background of desmosines, and stereoselective synthesis of ?-aminophosphonic acids.
Section 2 presents the role of amino acids in plants, which includes new insights and aspects of D-amino acids, metabolism and transport in soybean, changes during energy storage compound accumulation of microalgae, and determination of amino acids from natural compounds.
Section 3 describes the chapters on methodologies and requirement of dietary amino acids for Japanese quails, laying hens, and finishing pigs. The final chapter identifies potential importance of glutathione S-transferase activity for generating resistance to triclabendazole in Fasciola hepatica.


Contents
Preface
1 Therapeutic Uses of Amino Acids
2 The Anti-Allergic Effects of the His-Ala-Gln Tripeptide and Constituent Amino Acids
3 Amino Acids Modification to Improve and Fine-Tune Peptide- Based Hydrogels
4 New Aspects of the Structure of d-Amino Acid Oxidase from Porcine Kidney in Solution: Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Photoinduced Electron Transfer
5 The “History” of Desmosines: Forty Years of Debate on the Hypothesis That These Two Unnatural Amino Acids May Be Potential Biomarkers of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
6 Stereoselective Synthesis of α‐Aminophosphonic Acids through Pudovik and Kabachnik‐Fields Reaction
7 D-Amino Acids in Plants: New Insights and Aspects, but also More Open Questions
8 Amino Acid Metabolism and Transport in Soybean Plants
9 Amino Acid Changes during Energy Storage Compounds Accumulation of Microalgae under the Nitrogen Depletion
10 Bioactive Molecules Profile from Natural Compounds
11 Amino Acid for Japanese Quails: Methodologies and Nutritional Requirement
12 Effects of Excess Dietary Tryptophan on Laying Performance, Antioxidant Capacity and Immune Function of Laying Hens
13 Effects of Dietary Lysine Levels on the Plasma Concentrations of Growth‐Related Hormones in Late‐Stage Finishing Pigs
14 Identification and Differential Activity of Glutathione STransferase Mu in Strains of Fasciola hepatica Susceptible and Resistant to Triclabendazole