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Article: Building Fine Chemicals Muscle with Amino Acids.
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- Chemical Market Reporter
- Article date:
- June 14, 1999
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Research and regulatory imperatives are expanding the market for amino acid expertise.
The volume of amino acids used in nutritional applications dwarfs that of amino acids used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, but their importance to that value-adding process is growing. Bio-based drug design and regulatory imperatives concerning optical purity are creating a growing market for amino acid expertise. Amino acids obtained from natural sources present an extensive chiral pool, while unnatural amino acids and their derivatives offer a powerful means to modify the activity of peptide analogs and other bioactive molecules.
According to Sandra Erb of ...