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Why would we break down amino acids

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Protein turnover
Protein rich diet
Starvation/uncontrolled diabetes

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Are amino acids stored in the body?

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No

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How to we get amino acids

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Dietary
Synthesized
Protein degradation

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What are the two steps in catabolizing excess amino acids

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Step1: Removal of Nitrogen (amino group)
Step2: Carbon skeleton

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Where are free amino acids found

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Cells
Blood
Extracellular fluid

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What happens to amino acids in a low energy situation

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Amino Acids are oxidized to make ATP

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What happens to amino acids in a low glucose state

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AA sent to liver and turned into glucose

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What happens to AA in high energy/lots of glucose

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AA sent to liver and turned into fat

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What can AA be made into

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ATP
Glucose
Fat
Protein
Nitrogen compounds
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How many AA can muscles oxidize?

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6

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How many AA can the liver oxidize

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20

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What is AA oxidation

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Break down of AA into ATP

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What is an AA first broken down to during catabolism

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Amino Group
Carbon Skeleton (a-Keto acid)
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What is the fate of the amino group of an AA

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Urea and excreated

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What is the fate of the carbon skeleton of an AA

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ATP
Glucose
FA

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What is the reaction that removes the Amino group of an AA? What enzyme is involved

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Rxn: Transamination

Enzyme: Aminotransferases

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What is the Amino group of an AA transfered to

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A-ketogluterate

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What are the reactants and products of Transaminoation

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AA + a-ketogluterate
To
Keto acid + Glutamate

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What is the importance of Glutamate in the body

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It is used as a Amino Donor in bio-synthetic pathways

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What determines the fate of a-keto acid

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Energy charge
Hormones
Repiratory quotient
Glucose concentration
The tissue it is in
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Where are most AA metabolized

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The Liver

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What transports AA to the liver

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Glutamine

Alanine

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What do you get when you combine Glutamate/Glutamine with a-ketoacid

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a-ketogluterate (metabolite of krebs)

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What do you get when you combine Alanine and a-ketoacid

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Pyruvate (end metabolite of glycolosis)

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What do you get when you combine Aspartate and a-ketoacid
Oxaloacetate (Kreb cycle intermediate)
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Where is Glutamate produced? Where is Glutamine produced
Glutamate: Liver (AA-->a-ketogluterate-->Glutamate) Glutamine: Extrahepatic tissues
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What AA make up the highest concentration in the liver
Glutamine | Glutamate
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Where is Glutamate in the liver transfered to in the liver
Cytosol to the mitochondria
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What type of reaction removes the amino group off of Glutamate
Oxidative damination
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What it produced from Oxidative deamination of Glutamate
NH4 (Ammonia) | a-Ketogluterate
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What is the main transporter of Ammonia in the body
Glutamine Glutamate+NH3-->Glutamine
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How does muscle act as a Nitrogen donor
Muscle uses AA for Nitrogen to make Glutamine for export
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What are the nitrogen donors in skeletal muscle
``` Leucine Isoleucine Valine Glutamate Aspartate Asparagine ```
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What enzyme turns glutamate into glutamine in muscles
Glutamine synthetase NH3+glutamate--->Glutamine
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What enzyme hydrolyzes glutamine into glutamate
Glutaminase Glutamine-->glutamate+NH3
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What are the two systems that need nitrogen from gluatamine?
Digestive system | Immune system
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How to skeletal muscles produce alanine
Muscles give amino group from glutamate to pyruvate -->Alanine
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What enzyme transferes the amio group from glutamate to pyruvate
Alanine aminotransferase
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What does Alanine aminotransferase differ in liver and muscles
Muscles: lots of pyruvate --> pushes rxn to make alanine Liver: lots of alanine from muscles --> pushes rxn to make pyruvate
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What is the steps in the muscles+liver of Glucose -alanine cycle
Muscles: Glucose --> Pyruvate --> Alanine --> Liver Liver: Alanine --> Pyruvate --> glucose --> Muscles
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What cycle is used to turn alanine into glucose in the liver
Gluconeogenesis
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what percentage of energy does alanine provide during exercise
5%
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Where do the carbons in alanine come from?
Mucles glycogen
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What enzyme transfers the amino group from glutamate to oxaloacetate. What is formed
Enz: Aspartate aminotransferase Prod: Aspartate
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What is aspartate used for
Transporting Malate in and out of the mitochondria
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What happens to excess nitrogen that is not used
liver converts it into urea and it is excreated
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Why does nitrogen go to the liver
1) You have eaten too much protein | 2) you are in gluconeogeneis
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What are the two enzymes in the liver that are entry points for aa to be converted into urea
Glutamate dehydrogenase Aspartate aminotransferase
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What does the free NH3 in the liver need to be turned into in order to enter the urea cycle? What enzyme does it
Product: Carbamyol Phosphate Enz: Carbamoyl Phosphatase
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What is the first step in the urea cycle
Carbamoyl phosphate + L-Ornithine --> L-citrulline
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What enzyme is used in the first step of the urea cycle
Ornithine transcarbamoylase
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What is the second step in the urea cycle
L-Citrulline --> Argininosuccinate
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What enzyme is used in the second step of the urea cycle
Argininosuccinate
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What AA provides a second nitrogen during the second step of the urea cycle
Aspartate
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What is the third step in the urea cycle
Argininosuccinate --> L-arginine
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What enzyme is used in the third step of the urea cycle
Arginiosuccinate lyase
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What is a by-product of the third step of the urea cycle
Fumarate
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What is the 4th step of the urea cycle
L-Arginine --> L-ornithine
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What step of the urea cycle produces urea
step 4 L-arginine --> L-Ornithine
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What enzyme is used to turn L-arginine into --> L-Ornithine
Arginase
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Where does some of the urea produced by the urea cycle diffuse into
GI tract and excreted in feces
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How many nitrogens are on urea
2 One from aspartate one from free NH3
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What happens to the concentration of Glutamate and alanine in blood plasma during exercise
Glutamate = Decrease Alanine = Increase
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How much can ATP turn over increase during exercise. What does this mean for the cell?
100 fold Kreb cycle intermediates need to increase 4-10 fold
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What are the Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAA's)
Leucine Isoleucine Valine
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What AA constitute 90% of muscles AA uptake after a meal
Leucine, Isoleucine, Valine
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How much does glutamine release increase after a meal
It doubles
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What amino acids are released in an amounts less than what is taken in
BCAA's Glutamate Aspartate Asparagine
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What amino acids are released in an amount more than what is taken in
Alanine | Glutamine
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What step of the urea cycle produces urea
step 4 L-arginine --> L-Ornithine
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What enzyme is used to turn L-arginine into --> L-Ornithine
Arginase
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Where does some of the urea produced by the urea cycle diffuse into
GI tract and excreted in feces
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How many nitrogens are on urea
2 One from aspartate one from free NH3
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What happens to the concentration of Glutamate and alanine in blood plasma during exercise
Glutamate = Decrease Alanine = Increase
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How much can ATP turn over increase during exercise. What does this mean for the cell?
100 fold Kreb cycle intermediates need to increase 4-10 fold
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What are the Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAA's)
Leucine Isoleucine Valine
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What AA constitute 90% of muscles AA uptake after a meal
Leucine, Isoleucine, Valine
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How much does glutamine release increase after a meal
It doubles
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What amino acids are released in amounts less than what is taken in
BCAA's Glutamate Aspartate Asparagine
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What amino acids are released in amount more than what is taken in
Alanine | Glutamine
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When are amino acids turned into glucose
Starvation Low carb intake Exercise
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What two amino acids can not be turned into glucose
Leucine | Lysine
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How are amino acids turned into fat
AA --> a-ketogluterate --> acetyl CoA

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