NUTR 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Glycerol, Pyridoxal Phosphate, Glucogenic Amino Acid

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1. amino acids are broken into the carbon skeleton and the ammonia group: note that the carbon skeleton = an alpha keto acid. 2 a) the carbon skeleton can either be used to make glucose, or acetyl coa: both of these can be used to make energy, glucose is stored as glycogen, acetyl coa is stored as tags. 2 b) the nh3 (ammonia) group is toxic, so at physiological ph it exists as. Note that there is constant turnover between protein synthesis and protein breakdown. During protein breakdown, there is very good aa recycling: ~80% aa = reused, ~20% = degraded. Fed : only gln as the nitrogen carrier , bypasses the liver and the urea cycle, and ammonium is directly excreted in the urine. 3 differences between fasted and fed state: 1. Fed state involves formation of both glutamine an alanine: 2. Fed state involves both liver and kidneys: 3.

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