Exam 3 Flashcards
How are proteins broken down in gut
by specific peptidases
How are proteins broken down in tissues
in peripheral tissues, glutamine accepts N from other amino acids and then goes to the liver/kidney where it become glutamate then alphaKG, this is catalyzed by glutamate DH (minor pathway= arginine and production of NO)
Issues with metabolism of proteins containing branched chain
require special enzymes: defect: maple syrup urine disease
What makes an amino acid glucogenic vs ketogenic
used as substrates for gluconeo vs acetyl coA which then goes through krebs and can make ATP via this cycle or be used for ketone synth
Flow of nitrogen from an amino acid to urea
Nitrogen can be put onto glutamate by transamination and then become either ammonia or be moved onto asp (asp will also enter the urea cycle by combining carbamoyl phosphate)
post translational modifcation of aminos
oh-pro, oh-lys, gamma carboxyglutamate
Scurvy
reduced collagen synthesis due to lack of vit c which is co-factor for lysyl oh-lase
co-factors: enzymes/diseases
Scuvy, glytamyl carboxylase, aminotransferases
Vit-c for lysyl oh-lase, Glu to gamma carboxyglutamate is (vik-k) dependent and involved in clotting, aminotransferases: B6 (pyridoxal phosphate)
protein degradation: intracellular paths(2)
Ubq-proteasome
lysosomal pathway
transamination
occurs via aminotransferases, converts one a-keto acid to its corresponding aa to another a-keto and its aa
Pepsinogen cleave by ___
Hcl
Pepsin is a __peptidase
endo
Trypsin is cleaved by __
enteropeptidase
Most zymogens are cleaved by __
trypsin
Ubq-proteasome is an ATP (in/dependent)means of breaking down proteins
dependent (b/c x-linking protein to ubq)
Entry points for N in urea cycle (2)
Aspartate, free ammonia
What is the Keq of transamination
1, reversible
Direction of transamination depends on __
[] of substrates
where does urea cycle occur?
conversion of ornithine to citrulline occurs in mitochondrion, everything else occurs outside in cytosol
regulated step of urea cycle
formation of carbamoyl phosphate by carbamoyl phosphatase synthetase I
Control points of urea cycle
carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I in MITOCHONDRIA (note that II is in cytosol)
allosteric (+) n-acetylglutamate (the only one!) indirect indication that a lot of substrate is coming b/c it is made from glu
means of ammonia transport in the blood
most tissues use glutamine often “holds” two ammonia groups, muscles instead uses alanine (b/c of pyruvate buildup which can be converted to alanine)
difference b/w ketogenic and glucogenic AA’s
produces pyruvate or TCA cycle intermediates, keto: acetyl coA or acetoacetate is produced
MSUD: what is the pathology caused by? how to tx?
buildup of leucine, valine, isoleucine products b/c branched chain DH complex is deficient… but only need to exclude leucine b/c it is neurotoxic