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What is a peptide?

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short chain of AA (less than 50)

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What is a protein?

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a long chain of AA
-sequence will determine shape and function

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What is an essential AA?

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-cant be synthesize by the body of cant be synthesized at a high enough rate to support the need
-required in diet

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What is a nonessential AA?

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cant be synthesized at a high enough rate to support the body’s needs
-does not need to be included in diet

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What are conditionally essential AA?

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non essential AA may become essential if the rate of synthesis is not high enough to meet the demand

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What is a semi essential AA?

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synthesized from essential AA
-if there is not enough of the essential AA precursor in the diet, these AA become essential

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What are the essential AA?

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  1. Phenylalanine
  2. Valine
  3. Threonine
  4. Tryptophan
  5. Isoleucine
  6. Methionine
  7. Histidine
  8. Arginine
  9. Lysine
  10. Leucine
    (PVT TIM HALL)
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What are the non essential AAs?

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  1. Cysteine
  2. Alanine
  3. Asparagine
  4. Aspartate
  5. Tyrosine
  6. Serine
  7. Glycine
  8. Glutamine
  9. Glutamate
  10. Proline
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What are the semi essential AAs?

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Cysteine and Tyrosine

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What is cysteine synthesized from?

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methionine
-need to include enough methionine in diet to meet the requirement for methionine needs + the synthesis of cysteine
-if include cysteine in the diet, this will have a sparing effect on methionine and decrease methionine requirement

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What is tyrosine synthesized from?

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phenylalanine
-need enough in diet to meet needs + synthesis
-sparing effect

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Protein digestion in the stomach deals with?

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-HCl
-Pepsin

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What does the HCL do?

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denatures protein

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What does the pepsin do?

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pepsinogen is activated by HCL to be pepsin
then pepsin breaks down protein into long peptide chains

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How does protein digestion work in the small intestine?

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-cholecystokinin is secreted when chyme enters the duodenum
-CCK acts on pancreas to secrete digestive enzymes
etc

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What digestive enzymes does the pancreas secrete after CCK acts on it?

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-trypsinogen
-chymotrypsin
-procarboxypeptidase

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What is secreted by the brush border?

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enterokinase
-activates trypsinogen to trypsin

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What does trypsin activate?

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chymotrypsinogen to chymotrypsin & procarboxypeptide to carboxypeptide

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What breaks down large peptides into oligopeptides? (<10AA)

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trypsin, chymotrypsin, & carboxypeptidase

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What does aminopeptidase (secreted by brush border) do?

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breaks down oligopeptides into tripeptides, dipeptides, and free AAs

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What do microbes synthesize?

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microbial protein from dietary protein and AA

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Microbial protein leaves rumen for

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digestion in abomasum and s.i.

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Na+ dependent AA transport system

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transports Na+ into cell w/ the amino acid

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Na+ independent AA transport system

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transports AA into the cell

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Peptide transport (Tri and Di-peptide)
-transport di- or tri- peptide w/ a H+ into the cell -cellular aminopeptidases breakdown di- and tri- peptides into free AA -free AA leave the cell via AA transporters and enter the hepatic portal system
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Functions?
-maintain body structure -facilitate mobility -transport -metabolism -regulation -immune regulation
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What is nitrogen balance?
measure N intake & excretion
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What is positive nitrogen balance?
N intake exceeds N excretion
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What is nitrogen equilibrium?
N intake = N excretion -indicates maintenance
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What is negative nitrogen balance?
N intake less than N excretion -geriatric animals/ disease states
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What is dynamic protein turnover?
continual degradation and resynthesis of body protein
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What is involved in protein synthesis?
transcription/ translation
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Amino acids can be used for
protein synthesis, oxidized, or used for the synthesis of non protein metabolites
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Transcription
DNA to RNA
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Translation
RNA to protein
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What is transcription/translation activated by?
insulin
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What is involved in protein degradation?
intracellular proteases
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What is intracellular proteases?
-lysosomal -ubiquitin
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What activates intracellular proteases?
high concentrations of glucagon (severe starvation)
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What does amino acid oxidation take place?
liver
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What are AA considered?
either glucogenic or ketogenic
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Glucogenic AA
oxidized to glycolytic or citric acid cycle intermediates -can be used for gluconeogenesis
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Ketogenic AA
oxidized to acetyl CoA -can be used for ketone body synthesis, FA synthesis
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Which AA are ketogenic?
-lysine -leucine
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Which AA are glucogenic?
-valine -threonine -histidine -arginine -methionine -cysteine -alanine -aspartate -asparagine -serine -glycine -glutamine -glutamate -proline
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Which AA are both?
-phenylalanine -tyrosine -isoleucine -tryptophan
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Various forms of nitrogen excretion?
-ammonia (aquatic invertebrates) -uric acid (birds, insects) -urea (mammals)
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What is nitric oxide synthesized from?
arginine
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What is creatine synthesized from?
arginine
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What is choline synthesized from?
serine
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What is histamine synthesized from?
histidine
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What is taurine synthesized from?
cysteine -cant be synthesized by cats
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What is glutathione synthesized from?
cysteine
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What is Coenzyme A synthesized from?
cysteine
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What is the thyroid hormone synthesized from?
tyrosine
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What is NAD synthesized from?
tryptophan
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What is Melatonin synthesized from?
tryptophan
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What is Carnitine synthesized from?
lysine
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What does a protein concentrate have to have?
at least 20% CP
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What are oilseed meals?
-by products of vegetable oil production -meal remains after oil extraction
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What is the most important protein supplement for livestock feeding?
soybean meal
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What is the downside with soybean meal?
deleterious factors (protease inhibitors, lectins, goitrogens)
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Protease inhibitors
-inhibit protein digestion -decrease growth
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Lectins
bind carbohydrates & cause digestive disturbances (diarrhea)
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Goitrogens
inhibit production of thyroid hormone -causes goiter
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What is the nutritional content of soybean meal?
CP = 44-50% -low fiber, high quality protein -high phytate
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What is the second most important plant protein supplement?
cottonseed meal
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What deleterious factors does cottonseed meal have?
Gossypol
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Gossypol
-reduced feed intake & growth -damage to lungs, liver, heart, anemia -green yolks in birds
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What is the nutritional content of cottonseed?
whole cottonseed -23% CP, 23% fat, 17% fiber cottonseed meal -41% CP, 12% fiber cottonseed oil -contains cyclopropene fatty acids
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Cyclopropene fatty acids
-inhibits desaturases -hard fat in the meat due to saturated FAs -pink egg albumin
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Animal protein sources examples
-meat meal -meat + bone meal -blood meal
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Content of animal protein sources
-contains vitamin B12 -high quality protein -concerns with safety (e coli, mad cow disease)
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What happens to Nonprotein Nitrogen in the rumen?
NPN sources are converted to ammonia in rumen -used by microbes for amino acid synthesis
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What is the most common NPN source?
Urea -must be careful of urea toxicity -use at less than 2% of diet
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Urea toxicity
labored breathing, slobbering, bloating, incoordination
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Other NPN sources
-biuret -dried poultry waste
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Biuret
2 ureas -brokendown to ammonia more slowly then urea -takes up to 6 weeks for the microbes to produce enzyme to breakdown

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