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Glutamine vs Glutamate - What's the difference?

glutamine | glutamate |

As nouns the difference between glutamine and glutamate

is that glutamine is (amino acid) a nonessential amino acid c5h10n2o3 found in most animal and plant proteins while glutamate is (chemistry) any salt or ester of glutamic acid.

glutamine

English

Noun

  • (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid C5H10N2O3 found in most animal and plant proteins.

    • Synonyms

    * Gln

    See also

    * ("glutamine" on Wikipedia)

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    glutamate

    English

    (wikipedia glutamate)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) Any salt or ester of glutamic acid.