Amino Acids

Question 1

Essential amino acids

Answer 1

PVT: phenylalanine, valine, tryptophan
TIM: threonine, isoleucine, methionine
HALL: histidine(essential in child, not adult), arginine, leucine, lysine

Question 2

Purely ketogenic

Answer 2

Leucine, lysine
Lysine precursor to carnitine
Carnitine takes FA into mitochondria for B-oxidation

Question 3

Aromatic amino acids

Answer 3

Phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan (has indole ring)

Question 4

Suffer containing amino acids

Answer 4

Cysteine, methionine, and cystine

Question 5

Branched chain amino acids

Answer 5

Isoleucine, leucine and valine

Maple syrup urine disease: Caine break down branched chain amino acids

Question 6

Acidic amino acids

Answer 6

Aspartic acid (aspartate) 
Glutamic acid (glutamate )
Aspartame contains aspartic acid which is a neurotoxin

Question 7

Basic amino acids

Answer 7

Histidine, lysine, arginine

Basic amino acids have the greatest positive net charge at normal ph of blood.