Product Description

N-acetyl glutamic acid (also referred to as n-acetyl glutamate, abbreviated nag) is biosynthesized from glutamate and acetyl ornithine by ornithine acetyltransferase and from glutamic acid and acetyl-coA by the enzyme n-acetyl glutamate synthase. The reverse reaction, hydrolysis of the acetyl group, is catalysed by a specific hydrolase. It is the first intermediate involved in the biosynthesis of arginine in prokaryotes and simple eukaryotes and a regulator in the process known as the urea cycle that converts toxic ammonia to urea for excretion from the body in vertebrates.