Serine (symbol Ser or S)[3][4] is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins. It contains an α-amino group (which is in the protonated −NH+ 3 form under biological conditions), a carboxyl group (which is in the deprotonated −COO− form under biological conditions), and a side chain consisting of a hydroxymethyl group, classifying it as a polar amino acid. It can be synthesized in the human body under normal physiological circumstances, making it a nonessential amino acid. It is encoded by the codons UCU, UCC, UCA, UCG, AGU and AGC.
Occurrence
This compound is one of the proteinogenic amino acids. Only the L-stereoisomer appears naturally in proteins. It is not essential to the human diet, since it is synthesized in the body from other metabolites, including glycine. Serine was first obtained from silk protein, a particularly rich source, in 1865 by Emil Cramer.[5] Its name is derived from the Latin for silk, sericum. Serine's structure was established in 1902.[6][7]
D-Serine, synthesized in neurons by serine racemase from L-serine (its enantiomer), serves as a neuromodulator by coactivating NMDA receptors, making them able to open if they then also bind glutamate. D-serine is a potent agonist at the glycine site (NR1) of canonical diheteromeric NMDA receptors. For the receptor to open, glutamate and either glycine or D-serine must bind to it; in addition a pore blocker must not be bound (e.g. Mg2+ or Zn2+).[14] Some research has shown that D-serine is a more potent agonist at the NMDAR glycine site than glycine itself.[15][16] However, D-serine has been shown to work as an antagonist/inverse co-agonist of t-NMDA receptors through the glycine binding site on the GluN3 subunit.[17][18]
Ligands
D-serine was thought to exist only in bacteria until relatively recently; it was the second D amino acid discovered to naturally exist in humans, present as a signaling molecule in the brain, soon after the discovery of D-aspartate. Had D amino acids been discovered in humans sooner, the glycine site on the NMDA receptor might instead be named the D-serine site.[19] Apart from central nervous system, D-serine plays a signaling role in peripheral tissues and organs such as cartilage,[20] kidney,[21] and corpus cavernosum.[22]
Gustatory sensation
Pure D-serine is an off-white crystalline powder with a very faint musty aroma. D-Serine is sweet with an additional minor sour taste at medium and high concentrations.[23]
Clinical significance
Serine deficiency disorders are rare defects in the biosynthesis of the amino acid L-serine. At present three disorders have been reported:
These enzyme defects lead to severe neurological symptoms such as congenital microcephaly and severe psychomotor retardation and in addition, in patients with 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase deficiency to intractable seizures. These symptoms respond to a variable degree to treatment with L-serine, sometimes combined with glycine.[24][25]
Response to treatment is variable and the long-term and functional outcome is unknown. To provide a basis for improving the understanding of the epidemiology, genotype/phenotype correlation and outcome of these diseases their impact on the quality of life of patients, as well as for evaluating diagnostic and therapeutic strategies a patient registry was established by the noncommercial International Working Group on Neurotransmitter Related Disorders (iNTD).[26]
The classification of L-serine as a non-essential amino acid has come to be considered as conditional, since vertebrates such as humans cannot always synthesize optimal quantities over entire lifespans.[27] Safety of L-serine has been demonstrated in an FDA-approved human phase I clinical trial with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, patients (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01835782),[28][29] but treatment of ALS symptoms has yet to be shown. A 2011 meta-analysis found adjunctive sarcosine to have a medium effect size for negative and total symptoms of schizophrenia.[30] There also is evidence that L‐serine could acquire a therapeutic role in diabetes.[31]
D-Serine is being studied in rodents as a potential treatment for schizophrenia.[32] D-Serine also has been described as a potential biomarker for early Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis, due to a relatively high concentration of it in the cerebrospinal fluid of probable AD patients.[33] D-serine, which is made in the brain, has been shown to work as an antagonist/inverse co-agonist of t-NMDA receptors mitigating neuron loss in an animal model of temporal lobe epilepsy.[34]
D-Serine has been theorized as a potential treatment for sensorineural hearing disorders such as hearing loss and tinnitus.[35]
^"Nomenclature and symbolism for amino acids and peptides (IUPAC-IUB Recommendations 1983)". Pure and Applied Chemistry. 56 (5): 595–624. 1984. doi:10.1351/pac198456050595..
^Cramer E (1865). "Ueber die Bestandtheile der Seide" [On the constituents of silk]. Journal für praktische Chemie (in German). 96: 76–98. Serine is named on p. 93: "Ich werde den in Frage stehenden Körper unter dem Namen Serin beschreiben." (I will describe the body [i.e., substance] in question by the name "serine".)
^Liu Y, Hill RH, Arhem P, von Euler G (2001). "NMDA and glycine regulate the affinity of the Mg2+-block site in NR1-1a/NR2A NMDA receptor channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes". Life Sciences. 68 (16): 1817–1826. doi:10.1016/S0024-3205(01)00975-4. PMID11292060.
^Takarada T, Hinoi E, Takahata Y, Yoneda Y (May 2008). "Serine racemase suppresses chondrogenic differentiation in cartilage in a Sox9-dependent manner". Journal of Cellular Physiology. 215 (2): 320–328. doi:10.1002/jcp.21310. PMID17929246. S2CID45669104.
^Ghasemi M, Rezania F, Lewin J, Moore KP, Mani AR (Jun 2010). "D-Serine modulates neurogenic relaxation in rat corpus cavernosum". Biochemical Pharmacology. 79 (12): 1791–1796. doi:10.1016/j.bcp.2010.02.007. PMID20170643.
^Tabatabaie L, Klomp LW, Berger R, de Koning TJ (March 2010). "L-Serine synthesis in the central nervous system: a review on serine deficiency disorders". Mol Genet Metab. 99 (3): 256–262. doi:10.1016/j.ymgme.2009.10.012. PMID19963421.
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