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How can one convert alanine to aspartic acid?

Alanine==> Pyruvate ==>Oxaloacetate==>Aspartate

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What organ is most likely to be adversely effected by high levels of ammonia

Brain

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How is ammonium safely transported in the blood?

Ammonium is safely carried through the blood as glutamine. Glutamine carries 2 NH3's

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What enzyme can use both NAD+ and NADP+?

Glutamate dehydrogenase

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Where does transamination take place?

All cells in the body.

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What coenzyme is used with Alanine Aminotransferase

ALT (and all aminotransferases) require the coenzyme pyridoxal phosphate , which is converted into pyridoxamine in the first phase of the reaction, when an amin

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Transamination employs what type of mechanism?

Ping-Pong

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What enzyme is used to convert glutamate to glutamine in the tissues for transport to liver?

Glutamine synthetase

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This amino acid transports ammonia from skeletal muscle to liver

Alanine

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What are some of the molecules that can be made from pyruvate?

Acetyl CoA, Lactate, Ethanol, Oxaloacetate, Alanine, Malate, CAC intermediates, PEP, Glucose

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What is attached to proteins to tag them for degradation

Ubiquitin

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In what form do humans excrete nitrogen waste from amino acid metabolism

Humans excrete the nitrogenous waste from amino acids as urea

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What is the name of this molecule?

Urea

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