Table 1.

Major amino acid composition differences between muscle protein and two major acute phase proteins after a gross amino acid composition list (in arbitrary units) (Reeds et al., 1994)

Amino acid	Muscle protein	CRP	SAA
Phe	40	105	103
Tyr	36	50	67
Trp	13	42	45
Arg	69	36	116
Ala	59	31	106

CRP: C-reactive protein; SAA: serum amyloid A