Saturday 28 April 2012

Essential and Non essential Amino acids

Essential amino acids:-
Most micro organisms such as E. Coli can synthesise the entire basic set of 20 amino acids, whereas human beings cannot make 9 of them. The amino acids  that must be supplied in the diet are called essential amino acid.There names are as followed

1.         Histidine
2.        Isoleucine
3.       Leucine                             
4.       Lysine
5.       Methionine 
6.       Phenylalanine
7.       Threonine
8.        Tryptophan
9.       Valine

Non essential amino acid:-
The  amino acid which are produced in the body are called non essential amino acid.These are  the following:-

1.         Alanine
2.        Arginine
3.       Asparagine                               
4.       Aspartate
5.       Cysteine                                    
6.       Glutamate
7.       Glutamine
8.        Glycine
9.       Proline
10.     Serine
11.       Tryosine  

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