Table 3.
Amino acid composition.
| C. nivalis | P. purpureum | C. vulgaris | Disrupted N. gaditana |
Disrupted Scenedesmus |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sum amino acids (mg/g dm) 1 | 334 ± 9 | 222 ± 1 | 455 ± 13 | 462 ± 3 | 257 ± 44 |
| Sum essential amino acids (mg/g dm) | 100 ± 1 | 71 ± 4 | 146 ± 2 | 150 ± 2 | 77 ± 14 |
| Arginine (mg/g dm) | 94 ± 1 | 61 ± 3 | 128 ± 11 | 138 ± 8 | 69 ± 4 |
| Lysine (mg/g dm) 2 | 17 ± 0 | 12 ± 1 | 23 ± 1 | 27 ± 1 | 14 ± 5 |
| Alanine (mg/g dm) | 22 ± 1 | 17 ± 2 | 38 ± 1 | 34 ± 1 | 21 ± 5 |
| Threonine (mg/g dm) 2 | 17 ± 0 | 10 ± 0 | 22 ± 1 | 22 ± 0 | 15 ± 2 |
| Glycine (mg/g dm) | 17 ± 0 | 12 ± 2 | 27 ± 1 | 24 ± 1 | 15 ± 4 |
| Valine (mg/g dm) 2 | 25 ± 1 | 15 ± 3 | 27 ± 0 | 28 ± 1 | 14 ± 5 |
| Serine (mg/g dm) | 16 ± 0 | 12 ± 0 | 18 ± 1 | 19 ± 0 | 14 ± 1 |
| Proline (mg/g dm) | 16 ± 0 | 9 ± 0 | 33 ± 0 | 34 ± 0 | 14 ± 3 |
| Isoleucine (mg/g dm) 2 | 13 ± 1 | 11 ± 0 | 19 ± 0 | 22 ± 1 | 9 ± 4 |
| Leucine (mg/g dm) 2 | 28 ± 0 | 19 ± 0 | 41 ± 0 | 41 ± 1 | 19 ± 11 |
| Methionine (mg/g dm) 2 | 2 ± 0 | 5 ± 1 | 8 ± 0 | 7 ± 1 | 3 ± 1 |
| Histidine (mg/g dm) 2 | 6 ± 0 | 3 ± 0 | 11 ± 0 | 10 ± 0 | 4 ± 1 |
| Phenylalanine (mg/g dm) 2 | 17 ± 0 | 10 ± 0 | 24 ± 0 | 23 ± 0 | 14 ± 4 |
| Glutamate and glutamine (mg/g dm) | 45 ± 6 | 24 ± 2 | 52 ± 1 | 50 ± 0 | 37 ± 4 |
| Aspartate and asparagine (mg/g dm) | 37 ± 2 | 23 ± 1 | 40 ± 1 | 40 ± 1 | 27 ± 3 |
| Cystine (mg/g dm) 3 | 2 ± 0 | 0 ± 0 | 3 ± 0 | 2 ± 0 | 1 ± 1 |
| Tyrosine (mg/g dm) | 10 ± 0 | 9 ± 0 | 16 ± 0 | 16 ± 0 | 8 ± 1 |
1 corrected for water uptake; 2 amino acids essential in humans; 3 cysteine is converted to cystine during HPAEC analysis.