Amino Acid Oxidation & the Urea Cycle (Biochemistry) Flashcards

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What many amino acids are hydrophobic?

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9

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How many hydrophillic amino acids are there?

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6

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What are the charged amino acids that are acidic (negatively charged)

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  • Aspartic acid
  • Glutamic acid
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What are the charged amino acids that are basic (positively charged)

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  • Lysine
  • Arginine
  • Histidine
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What is Autophagy?

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Cells break down their own components

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Why does Autophagy occur?

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  • Shortage of nutrients
  • Break down worn out organelles
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What occurs to dietary amino acids that exceed body’s protein syntehsis?

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They are degraded

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Where does protein degradation happen?

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In the gastrointestinal track

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What is the function of pepsin?

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Cutting protein into peptides in the stomach

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Where does Trypsin and chymotrypsin cut proteins or large peptides?

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Small intestine

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What does aminopeptidase and carboxypeptidase A and B does to peptide in the small intestine

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Degrade peptide into amino acids

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What is the transportation pathway for amino acids?

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Intestinal epithelium -> Blood -> Liver

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What aare the issues with amino group metabolism?

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Produce ammonium (NH4+) which is toxic

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What removes alpha amino acids in Enzymatic transamination?

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Aminotransferases

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What does all aminotransferases require?

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Pyridoxal phosphate cofactor

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What is L-Glutamate function in Enzymatic Transamination?

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Act as a temporary storage of nitrogen

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17
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What alpha - ketoglutarate accepts amino groups with?

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L-glutamate

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18
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What is Glutamine?

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Non toxic transport form of ammonia

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19
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What is released when Glutamine enters liver mitochondrias?

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Ammonium ion

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What is the Glucose-Alanine Cycle?

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Excess nitrogen in extrahepatic tissues travels to the liver as amino acids

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21
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How is pyruvate coverted to alanine?

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Recieving an amino group from glutamate

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22
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In pyruvate what is ammonium group replaced by?

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Oxygen

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What happens in Glutamate Dehydrogenase Reaction?

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Two-electron oxidation of glutamate followed by hydrolysis

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What is the net process of glutamate?

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Oxidative deamination

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Where does Glutamate Dehydrogenase Reaction occur?
In the mitochondrial matrix
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What can be used as an electron acceptor in Glutamate Dehydrogenase Reaction?
NAD+ or NADP+
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What do aquatic vertebrates release into the environment?
Ammonia
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What are the methods of ammonia release into the environment by aquatic vertebrates?
- Passive diffusion from epithelial cells - Active transport via gills
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What does terrestrial vertebrates and sharks excrete?
Urea
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What does birds and reptiles excrete?
Uric acid
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What are the upsides to urea?
- Less toxic than ammona - Very soluble
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What are the upsids to uric acid?
- Insouble - Excretion as paste allows to conserve water
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What are ammonotelic anaimals?
Most aquatic vertebrates (e.g bony fishes)
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What are ureotelic animals?
Terrestrial vertebrates and sharks
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What are uricotelic animals?
Birds and reptiles
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What is the purpose of synthesis of carbamoyl phosphate?
Recapturing ammonia
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What is the 1st step of the urea cycle?
Carbamoyl phosphate donates carbamoyl group to Ornithine
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What is the second 2nd step of the urea cycle?
Entry of Aspartate into the urea cycle - Requires ATP and move through an intermediate step
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What is the second nitrogen acquiring reaction catalysed by?
Argininosuccinate synthetase
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What is step 3 in urea cycle?
Argininosuccinate is cleaved releasing fumarate & arginine
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What is the enzyme in step 3 of the urea cycle?
Argininosuccinase
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What is the side reaction in step 3 of the urea cycle?
Can enter mitochodnria to join the pool of citric cycle intermediates
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Arginine is cleaved to release urea and Ornithine. What stage of the urea cycle is this?
Step 4
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What is the catalystic in stage 4 of the urea cycle
Arginase
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How is the Urea Cycle regulated?
- Protein rich diet - Starvation
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What is the long term to urea cycle regulation?
Regulation of the 4 urea cycle enzymes and carbamoyl synthetse I in the liver (Higher synthesis rates in starving animals)
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What is the short term regulation to urea cycle?
Activationr egulation of carbamoyl synthetase I via N-acetylglutamate synthase
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What links the urea and citric acid cycle?
Arginosuccinate Shunt
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How much does Arginosuccinate Shunt save?
3 ATP
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What are the amino acids that are used in Acetyl-CoA?
Leu (Leucine), Ile (Isoleucine), Thr (Threonine), Lys (Lysine), Phe (Phenylalanine), Trp(Tryptophan), Tyr (Tyrosine)
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What are the amino acids used in pyrvuate?
Ala (Alanine), Thr (Threonine), Trp(Tryptophan), Cys (Cysteine), Gly (Glyine), Ser (Serine),
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What is the amino acids used in succinyl-CoA?
Met (Methionine) Val (Valine) Ile (Isoleucine), Thr (Threonine),
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What are the amino acids used in alpha-ketoglutarate
Arg (Arginine) Glu (Glutamic acid) Gln (Glutamine) His (Histidine) Pro (Proline)
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What are the two amino acids used in fumarate?
(Phe) Phenylalanine (Tyr) Tyrosine
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What molecules are ketogenic?
- Acetoacetyl-CoA - Acetyl-CoA
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What molecules are Glucogenic?
- Pyruvate - OXaloacetate - Fumarate - Succinyl-CoA - Alpha-Ketoglutarate
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What amino acids are exclusively ketogenic?
Lecuine, Lysine
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What molecule is exclusively Glucogenic?
Arginine,
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What amino acid is both ketogenic and glucogenic?
Phenylalanine, Tryptophan, Isoleucine, TYrosine