Amino Acids
Amino acids are extensively used in the food and animal husbandry industries as additives, in the nutraceutical industry as
nutritional supplements, and as starting materials in the chemical. The most important commercial amino acid is glutamic acid, which is used as a flavor enhancer (monosodium glutamate, MSG). Over one million tons of this amino acid are produced annually by the gram-positive bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum