gamma-glutamyllysine

Name: gamma-glutamyllysine

Description: gamma-Glutamyllysine is a dipeptide composed of gamma-glutamate and lysine, and is a proteolytic breakdown product of larger proteins. It belongs to the family of N-acyl-alpha amino acids and deriv... atives. These are compounds containing an alpha amino acid which bears an acyl group at its terminal nitrogen atom. gamma-Glutamyllysine is an incomplete breakdown product of protein digestion or protein catabolism. Some dipeptides are known to have physiological or cell-signaling effects although most are simply short-lived intermediates on their way to specific amino acid degradation pathways following further proteolysis (HMDB0029154).