The group of Jonathan Long, Stanford, has identified several amino acid-carboxylic acid conjugates that are modulated by exercise and that have an effect on metabolism. Recent examples are lactoyl-phenylalanine (Li, He et al. 2022) and N-acetyltaurine (Wei, Lyu et al. 2024). We propose to use the term “aminokines” for regulatory amino acid-carboxylic acid conjugates. Our group has also identified a candidate aminokine. To more systematically identify aminokines, we are seeking to recruit a MSc student to perform the analyses. More information you will find here.