Practice: Amino Acid Oxidation 2 - Video Tutorials & Practice Problems
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The amino acids from the previous question are both glucogenic and ketogenic. All amino acids will generate urea and well no amino acid is capable of directly interacting with complex 2 of electron transport chain. That's the job of FAD. So, the answer to this question is all of the above. Now, the cofactor required for all amino acid degradation pathways in the first transaminase And in the liver mitochondria, glutamate is converted to alphaketoglutarate by a process that can be described as an oxidative deamination. Amino acid. The amino acids serine, cysteine, alanine are catabolized to yield pyruvate and these are glucogenic amino acids. Phenylketonuria which is a genetic disease can result or results from the inability to convert phenylalanine and it's actually the first enzyme in this pathway. A defect in the first enzyme in this pathway that converts phenylalanine to tyrosine. So babies are checked for, the products of or babies are checked for certain compounds called phenylacetate. Which basically, is just a marker of the inability to convert phenylalanine to tyrosine. So if they find phenyl acetate in, babies, they keep them on a low phenylalanine diet in the early years when their brains are still developing to prevent any problems. Alright. Let's flip the page.