Natural occurrence and industrial applications of D-amino acids: an overview.

摘要: Interest in D-amino acids has increased recent decades with the development of new analytical methods highlighting their presence all kingdoms life. Their involvement physiological functions, and metabolic routes for synthesis degradation have been shown. Furthermore, are gaining considerable importance pharmaceutical industry. The immense amount information scattered throughout literature makes it difficult to achieve a general overview applications. This review summarizes state-of-the-art on acid applications occurrence, providing both established neophyte researchers comprehensive introduction this topic.