But Glutamine and glutamate do seem to have some kind of a relationship, so I am not going to try to unravel any of that here.. seems to be beyond my depth, but interesting to see that there is some kind of a relationship, and you are not totally off of your rocker, Biodom.
It's simple...Glutamate (for example monosodium glutamate) is simply an anionic form of glutamic acid (as glutamine has an acidic carboxyl residue, which can ionize).
In a salt form glutamine becomes ionized to [Glutamate]
-, forming an ionic bond with the sodium ion (Na
+.
This is similar to cirtic acid/citrate, carboxylic acid/carbonate, etc.
Sorry for a bout of chemistry....but not much is happening to bitcoin price right now.