Amino Acid Derivatives Flashcards
Arginine
Nitric Oxide
Arginine + Aspartate
Urea
Glycine + Succinyl CoA
Heme
Glycine + Arginine + SAM
Creatine
Glutamate
GABA & Glutathione
Glutamate + Aspartate
Pyrimidines
Glutamate + Aspartate + Glycine
Purines
Histidine
Histamine
Phenylalanine
Tyrosine → DOPA → Dopamine
Tryptophan
Serotonin → Melatonin
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Niacin
Tyrosine
Thyroxine & Melanin
AAs w/ 3 titratable protons?
have 3 pKas
Tyrosine, Cysteine, Arginine, Lysine, Aspartate, Glutamate, Histidine
9 essential amino acids?
Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Threonine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Tryptophan, Valine
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Acidic amino acids?
negatively charged @ physiologic pH
Aspartate & Glutamate
Basic amino acids?
Which of these does not have a positive charge @ physiologic pH?
Arginine Lysine, & Histidine
(Histidine is not charged @ physiologic pH)
(Arginine & Lysine are over-expressed in histones, b/c they bind negatively-charged DNA)