HUN 2201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Essential Amino Acid, Saturated Fat, B Vitamins

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Proteins are essential to every cellular function: they catalyze chemical reactions, are fundamental components of skeletal and muscular tissue, and are vital to immune response. The proteins found in plants are made up of different combinations of amino acids than proteins found in animals. Twenty amino acids are commonly found in proteins: each kind of protein contains a different number, combination, and sequence of amino acids. The nitrogen in amino acids distinguished protein from carbohydrate and fat (all three contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, but only protein contains nitrogen) Under certain conditions, some of the nonessential amino acids cannot be synthesized in suf cient amounts to meet the body"s needs- referred to as conditionally essential amino acids. Sunday, june 18, 2017: the other eleven amino acids that are commonly found in protein are nonessential because they can be found in the body.

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