CJ has been granted a patent for a modified microorganism from the genus Corynebacterium that produces L-leucine. The microorganism contains a modified polypeptide with specific amino acid ...

SPONTANEOUS hypoglycemia in infancy may, on rare occasions, be precipitated by the ingestion of casein, L-leucine or isovaleric acid, an intermediary metabolite of leucine. 1–4 Recently, this ...

In 1956 Cochrane et al. 1 first reported that the hypoglycemia of some infants with "idiopathic familial hypoglycemia" was sharply accentuated by the oral administration of L-leucine. Their ...