Amino Acid Synthesis Flashcards
What is the diff bet essential and non essential aa
We get essential aa from our diet. We can’t get non essential aa from our diet–> we can synthesize them ourselves
What are the essential aa
Aromatics:
- Phe
- Trp
Basic:
- Lys
- His
- Arg (insufficient in infants)
Branched chain
- Ile
- Leu
- Val
- Thr
- Met (can be recycled)
What can be made from the transamination rxns?
- Alanine (pyruvate)
- Aspartate (oxaloacetate)
- Glutamate (alpha KG)
What are the non essential aa
- Serine
- Cysteine
- Glycine
- Proline
- Tyrosine
- Alanine
- Aspartate
- Glutamate
- Asparagine
- Glutamine
What is a precursor to the production of urea
argenine; regenerate ornithine to restart cycle
What is a pseudo essential aa
argenine and methionine. Argenine bec essential when you have + N for ex in pregnant women and infants and you dont have this cycle to generate argenine. Methionine can be recycled in met homocysteine pathway.
What are the two reactions that require B12 as a cofactor
- homocysteine pathway to form Met and THF
2. methylmalonylCoA –> succinyl CoA
Synthesis of non essential aa require ____ and ATP
NADPH
3 ____is required to make serine which condenses with _____ to make cysteine. It gets demethoxylated and become glycine
PG; homocysteine;
Pyruvate can directly transaminate to:
Alanine
Oxaloacetate can transanimtate to ______to make asparagine
aspartate
alpha KG can transaminate to _____ to make ______.
glutate; glutamine.
Phenylalanine + hydroxylase forms:
tyrosine
3 Phosphoglycerate is the starting point for which aa?
- Serine
- Glycine
- Cysteine
Folate = ______ for glycine
methyl group acceptor
Once you have serine you can condense it with _____ to make cystathionine and rehydrate it with _____ to make ______
cystathione B synthase; cystathione gamme lyase; cysteine
Serine + _____ form cysteine
homocysteine.
cysteine has a backbone from serine and S group from:
homocysteine
If your deficient in cystathione synthase you will have an excess of _____ in your system which is prominent in cardiovascular disease.
homocysteine. It can result from THF, B12, or B6 deficiencies.
Asparagine synthesis uses ___as N donor
glutamine
Glutamine is the main repository for _____. Reversal of reaction produces ____
NH3. Glutamate
What are the different ways to make glutamate?
- Transamination of alpha KG
- Oxidative deanimation via glutamate dehydrogenase
- Glutamine can be hyrolyzed with glutaminase
- Several amino acids convert to Glu: Proline, Argenine/ornithine, Histidine
How do you make proline?
Catabolized to glutamate. The reversal of this reaction is the synthesis of proline.
How is tyrosine made?
By hydroxylation of phenylalanine; catalyzed by phenylalanine hydroxylase (which is deficient in PKU; requires tetrahydrobiopterin and NADPH)
what are some biological molecules derived from aa
- GABA
- Histamine
- Thyroid hormones
- norepinephrine
- glutathione
- creatine
- serotonin
- acetylcholine
Removal of COO- requires the enzyme _____ which uses ___ as a cofactor
decarboxylase; pyridoxine (vitamin B6)