protein metabolism

Question 1

what is an amino acid pool?

Answer 1

the total supply of amino acids in the body

Question 2

can amino acids be stored?

Answer 2

no

Question 3

what can we use amino acids for?

Answer 3

• fuel through catabolism
• muscle and albumin structure
• function: enzymes, neurotransmitters

Question 4

what is a protein turnover?

Answer 4

the continuing process in which body proteins are hydrolyzed and resynthesized

Question 5

what are the 3 stages for Amino Acid Catabolism Nitrogen?

Answer 5

transamination, deamination, urea formation

Question 6

what is the transamination stage?

Answer 6

where we take amino acid and turn it into glutamate and aspirtate

Question 7

what happens in the deamination stage?

Answer 7

glutamate will go undergo deamination to form ammonium ion which would go to the urea formation cycle

Question 8

what happens during the urea formation cycle?

Answer 8

ammonium is turned into urea with aspartate

Question 9

what happens after urea is formed?

Answer 9

diffuses out of liver cells into the blood, kidney filters it out, excreted in urine

Question 10

outcome of transamination?

Answer 10

makes a new amino acid

Question 11

outcome of deamination?

Answer 11

oxidative process removing amino group

Question 12

outcome of urea formation?

Answer 12

takes two ammonia and makes urea

Question 13

glucogenic amino acid

Answer 13

has a carbon skeleton that can be turned into glucose

Question 14

ketogenic amino acid

Answer 14

carbon skeleton that can be turned into acetyl CoA

Question 15

majority of proteins will be what type of amino acid?

Answer 15

glucogenic amino acid

Question 16

what organ is responsible for producing most amino acids?

Answer 16

liver

Question 17

what is a nonessential amino acid?

Answer 17

an amino acid that CAN BE synthesized within the body in adequate amounts

Question 18

to make tyrosine in our body, is it essential or nonessential to make it?

Answer 18

essential