"In the lab, polyglutamic acid, as a gel, has been found to be able to absorb moisture up to 5,000 times its own weight," says Dr. Li. "But the actual water amount retained depends on the acidity ...

D. H. Everett, D. A. Landsman, The Thermodynamics of Ionization of Some Fatty Acids, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical ...

Poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) is a naturally occurring biopolymer that has gained considerable attention for its biodegradability, water solubility and versatile functionality. Produced primarily ...

Pyroglutamic acid or 5-oxoproline is the cyclic lactam of glutamic acid. Its presence in living cells has been reported from archaebacteria to humans, and its occurrence in living cells has been known ...

Proline-, glutamic acid- and leucine-rich protein-1 (PELP1) is a scaffolding oncogenic protein that functions as a coregulator for a number of nuclear receptors. p53 is an important transcription ...