| Clue | Answer |
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| ________________ have a maple/cheesy smell. | |
| A deposit of urate crystals in someone with gout | |
| This is the first enzyme to rise following a myocardial infarction and may only rise transiently and normalize in less thatn 3 days. | |
| This is a common cause of acquired hyperammonemia. | |
| This amino acid is used in the production of melanin | |
| This enzyme converts Argininosuccinate to Arginine and Fumarate. | |
| With what disease would a patient have high levels of valine, leucine and isoleucine in their blood? | |
| This enzyme is deficient in histidinemia | |
| How is maple syrup urine disease treated? | |
| This enzyme catalyzes formation of AMP from adenine and PRPP | |
| What amino acids are purely ketogenic? | |
| The glycine residue at the carboxyl end of ubiquitin attaches to what residue on the target protein? | |
| Presence of creatine kinase in the blood can indicate ___________________. | |
| What type of reaction can create non-essential amino acids from essential amino acids or non-essential AAs from non-essential AAs. | |
| This enzyme converts Xanthine to Uric Acid | |
| A deficiency of this enzyme would be indicated by Argininosuccinic Acidemia | |
| Treatment for Lesch-Nyhan Sydrome? | |
| Homocystein and methionine levels are increased in this disease that causes mental retardation and dislocation of the lens of the eye. | |
| Enzyme that converts thymidine to TMP | |
| CPS-II is most sensitive to PRPP during what cell phase? | |
| In PKU which amino acid becomes essential? | |
| What is the product of the rate limiting step of the urea cycle | |
| This enzyme combines ornithine and carbamoyl phosphate to make citrulline | |
| What amino acid is added to IMP to make GMP? | |
| This amino acid has two amino groups and is thus the most efficient carrier of ammonia | |
| This genetic disease is characterized by self-mutilating behavior | |
| Creatine phosphate 'buffers' ___________ during exercise so it doesn't significantly drop. | |
| This transaminase enzyme helps the urea cycle by being involved in the recycling of fumarate to aspartate. | |
| GMP, GDP, GTP, AMP, ADP and ATP all inhibit what enzyme? | |
| This enzyme converts dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate | |
| A genetic mutation leading to a deficiency in HGPRT leads to what condition? | |
| This molecule inhibits CPS-II | |
| Glycine, arginine and methionine are used to synthesize what? | |
| This enzyme combines citrulline and aspartate to argininosuccinate | |
| Enzyme that converts dUMP to dMP | |
| A polymer of this chemical creates a black-brown pigment that deposits in connective tissue and can be seen in standing urine in people with alkoptonuria. | |
| Aspartate, Arginine, Leucine, Lysine and Phenylalanine are which type of N-Terminal amino acids? | |
| Segments rich in what amino acids are rapidly degraded? (acronym) | |
| A muscle cell that is fully charged with CP has a __________:1 ratio of CP:ATP | |
| What type of amino acids are not principally oxidized in the liver? | |
| A deficiency of this enzyme would be indicated by Argininemia | |
| This enzyme converts carbomoyl phosphate to carbomoyl aspartate | |
| What enzyme is deficient in alkaptonuria? | |
| During periods of malnutrition, starvation, cachexia and after traumatic injury the nitrogen balance is _________________. | |
| In a healthy person ketovaline is broken down into ______________> | |
| Deamination reactions create this highly toxic chemical that must be removed from the body. | |
| This enzyme converts UTP to CTP | |
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