For asparaginase, this reaction is breaking down an amino acid called asparagine. Cells need asparagine to survive. White blood cells can normally make their own asparagine, but cancerous white blood ...

Working with aspartic acid and asparagine, however, we have for some time observed that yeast growth has been stimulated under some conditions to a remarkable extent if either aspartic acid or ...

Tumour with Salmonella in blue (Image: Supplied) The bacteria deplete an amino acid called asparagine, which suppresses tumour growth but also disrupts the metabolic processes of T cells.

it was observed in feeding experiments that young seedlings of a number of plant species incorporate radioactivity from H 14 CN into asparagine to a considerable extent.