Substrate for acetylglutamate kinase. Inhibitor of N-acetyl-L-glutamate synthetase
N-Acetyl-L-glutamic acid is used as pharmaceutical intermediates.
N-Acetyl-L-glutamic Acid is the N-Acetyl analogue of the non-essential amino acid, L-glutamic acid (G596960). N-Acetyl-L-glutamic Acid activates carbamoyl phosphate synthetase in the urea cycle.
ChEBI: N-acetyl-L-glutamic acid is an N-acyl-L-amino acid that is L-glutamic acid in which one of the amine hydrogens is substituted by an acetyl group. It has a role as a Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolite and a human metabolite. It is a N-acetyl-L-amino acid and a N-acyl-L-glutamic acid. It is functionally related to a L-glutamic acid. It is a conjugate acid of a N-acetyl-L-glutamate(1-).
A likely impurity is glutamic acid. Crystallise it from boiling water. It inhibits N-acetyl-L-glutamate synthase. [Greenstein & Winitz The Chemistry of the Amino Acids J. Wiley, Vol 3 p 1948 1961, Shigesada & Tatibana Eur J Biochem 84 285 1978, Coude Biochem Biophys Res Commun 102 1016 1981, Beilstein 4 IV 3047.]
