| Question | Answer |
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| 1) Can excess amino acids be stored in the body? | |
| 2) Amino acids are degraded into intermediates from what metabolic pathway? | |
| 3) What part of the amino acid enters this pathway? | |
| 4) Amino acids can be described by the type of intermediate they make. Name the type beginning with G. | |
| 5) ...and the other type, beginning with K. | |
| 6) Amino acids that make acetyl CoA or acetoacetate are... (see #4&5) | |
| 7) Amino acids that make pyruvate, oxaloacetate, aKG, succinyl CoA or fumarate are... | |
| 8) The amino group is removed from the amino acid by a __________ reaction. | |
| 9) the reaction in #8 is catalysed by... | |
| 10) What is the predominant amino acid acceptor? | |
| 11) What amino acid is produed from transamination of #10? | |
| 12) What amino acid is produced from transamination of oxaloacetate? | |
| 13) Do the above reactions result in net deamination? | |
| 14) Oxidative deamination of glutamate produces NH4+, what electron acceptor is used: NAD+, NADP+ or either of the two? | |
| 15) During transamination, what does alanine turn into? | |
| 16) This means it is a starting material for gluconeogenesis and can be described as... | |
| 17) Transamination reactions use what as an amine group carrier? | |
| 18) What functional group of #17 reacts with the amino group? | |
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