Amino Acid Imbalance of Zein: Relation to Nicotinic Acid Deficiency in the Chick.
- 1 July 1948
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Vol. 68 (3) , 564-566
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-68-16553
Abstract
Studies were made with chicks on the corn-nicotinic acid relationship. By use of an amino-acid mixture simulating zein, it was found that chick-pellagra symptoms caused by the feeding of zein were due to the combined action of the amino acid constituents of this protein. Glutamic acid, leucine, alanine, pro-line, and phenylalanine, the amino acids occurring in greatest amts., seem to be principally involved in this connection.Keywords
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