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Table 1 Threshold concentration of amino acid and secreted concentration from health donors and breast cancer patients

From: In vitro quantitative analysis of Salmonella typhimurium preference for amino acids secreted by human breast tumor

Amino acid

Thresholda (mM)

Health donorsb (mM)

Breast cancer patientsb (mM)

Aspartate

~0.002

~0.11

~0.17

Serine

~0.002

~1.32

~1.60

Alanine

~0.002

~3.92

~6.42

Glutamine

~0.1

~2.69

~3.91

Glutamate

~0.004

~0.59

~1.08

Aspargine

~0.01

~0.36

~0.41

Arginine

~1

~0.71

~0.93

  1. aReference values from the Adler capillary assay [31]
  2. bReference values from high performance liquid chromatography and fluorescence detection [13]