BIOLCHEM 415 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Phosphoenolpyruvic Acid, Aldehyde, Methyl Group

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Nitrogen is a key part to amino acids. Sustainable amount of nitrogen gas in the atmosphere but unusable because of the triple bond that exists between the two nitrogen. We will first discuss how some bacteria will fix nitrogen into ammonia. Then we will discuss how amino acids are synthesized; firstly by how the nitrogen is captured and then the carbon skeletons and where they come from and how they can be converted to amino acids. We will not cover every 20 amino acids synthesis. Amino acids can be used as precursors to synthesize other molecules. Nitrogen fixation is the process where the atmosphere gas is reduced to ammonia. You need about 225kcal/mol of energy to break the bond and make ammonia. An industrial process, called haber-bosch process, can do nitrogen fixation but required very high temperature and pressure and a catalyst. This is used today but to fix nitrogen into fertilizer.

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