Feeding Experiments on the Substitution of Protein by Definite Mixtures of Isolated Amino Acids (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Feeding Experiments on the Substitution of Protein by Definite Mixtures of Isolated Amino Acids<br/><br/>H exception of gelatin, the inadequacy of which for the maintenance of life had been known for many years. Now'we are aware of the fact that proteins differ, and may differ markedly, as regards their value in nutrition, such differences being due to differences in their amino acid content. Seventeen amino acids are known to have a rather Wide distribution among the different proteins, while two or three others have been identified in isolated instances. Furthermore, the possibility that many other amino acids are Widely distributed in proteins is not precluded by the incomplete protein yses obtained With the Fischer esterification method or the recent method of Van Slyke; in fact, this possibility must be conceded a considerable probability.

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