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Biosynthesis of the Nutritionally Nonessential Amino Acids. BIOMEDICAL IMPORTANCE. Amino acids present in proteins Amino acid deficiency Kwashiorkor Marasmus Caloric intake & specific amino acids are deficient
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BIOMEDICAL IMPORTANCE • Amino acids present in proteins • Amino acid deficiency • Kwashiorkor • Marasmus • Caloric intake & specific amino acids are deficient • Humans can synthesize 12 of the 20 common amino acids from the amphibolic intermediates
amino acids from • Amphibolic intermediates • α-ketoglutarate • Oxaloacetate • 3-phosphoglycerate • Dietary amino acids
The glutamate dehydrogenase reaction
Formation of alanine by transamination of pyruvate
The serine hydroxymethyltransferase reaction
Conversion of homocysteine and serine to homoserine and cysteine
Selenocysteine (top) and the reaction catalyzed by selenophosphate synthetase (bottom)
Selenocysteine-specific UGA codon • Selenocysteine insertion element
Catabolism of proteins • Urea synthesis
Partial reactions in the attachment of ubiquitin (UB) to proteins.
Overall flow of nitrogen in amino acid catabolism
Alanine aminotransferase (top) and glutamate aminotransferase (bottom).
Oxidative deamination catalyzed by L-amino acid oxidase
METABOLIC DISORDERS • Hyperammonemia Type 1. • Hyperammonemia Type 2 • Citrullinemia • argininosuccinate synthase • Argininosuccinicaciduria • Argininosuccinase • Hyperargininemia