...Hannah J. Glover; Holly Holliday; Rachel A. Shparberg; David Winkler; Margot Day; Michael B. Morris ABSTRACT The amino acid L-proline exhibits growth factor-like properties during development – from improving blastocyst development to driving neurogenesis in vitro . Addition of 400 μM L-proline...

... or lipid breakdown. The pumpless gene is expressed specifically in the fat body and encodes a protein with homology to a vertebrate enzyme involved in glycine catabolism. Feeding wild-type larvae high levels of amino acids could phenocopy the feeding and growth defects of pumpless mutants. Our data suggest...

... amino acids have employed higher specific activities than those used here and they may have to be reevaluated due to the possibility of radiation-induced artifacts. 1 Current address: Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164 U.S.A. 2 To whom...