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. 2020 Nov 20;21(22):8776. doi: 10.3390/ijms21228776

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Total energy cost of amino acid biosynthesis. The total number of high-energy phosphates, equivalent to ATP and GTP, required for the biosynthesis of each amino acid, was plotted; the numbers were obtained from [19]. Note that the aromatic amino acids (Tyr, Phe, Trp) are energetically more expensive than the others, Trp being the highest of all.