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| When asparagine is deaminated what is the product?
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1. aspartate |
| 1. what is alpha ketoglutarate converted to in a transamination rxn?
2. what is the product(s) of a transamination rxn involving aspartate and alpha ketoglutarate? |
1. glutamate
2. (glutamate) and oxaloacetate |
| 1.what enz is used to convert serine to pyruvate?
2.what enz is used to convert ser to glycine?
are they deamination or transamination rxn? which is which if different? |
1.serine dehydratase-(deamination)
2. serine hydroxy-methyl-transferase-(transamination) |
| what does hydroxy methyl transferase require? |
pyridoxal phosphate |
| What does THF do?
what vitamin forms THF? what num? |
transfers 1C(methyl)grp.
Folic Acid (vit B9) |
| To synthesize THF from folate...requires 2____? and what enz? |
2 NADPH
dihydrofolate reductase
Folate-->Dihydrofolate-->Tetrahydrofolate(THF)
so it's a reductn rxn...duh! :) |