Amino acid oxidation requires cofactors that can serve as a one-carbon source for amino acid and nucleotide synthesis. Which molecule does NOT function as a one-carbon transfer molecule?
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The urea cycle itself requires two different cellular compartments. What other pathway also requires two cellular compartments?
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All enzyme-catalyzed aminotransferase reactions remove amino groups from amino acids, producing what byproduct that is important during metabolic stress?
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Two nitrogen-containing groups are used to make urea in liver cells. What two molecules of the urea cycle contribute to those two groups ?
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Amino acids are not stored in appreciable concentrations. However, what amino acid would be found in significant concentration in the blood of basketball players after a long and intense workout in a gym?
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What molecule that is produced in the cytosol by the urea cycle can be used by the citric acid cycle but cannot pass the inner mitochondrial membrane?
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Which molecule is produced by oxidation of most amino acids, leading to potential carbon loss by organisms that cannot fix carbon?