Amino Acids and Protein Metabolisum

Amino acids make up ____. How many amino acids are there in our body?

How are ketoacids made?

Where does deamination occur?

What is deamination? what products do we get from it? What is the problem with its products, what do we do about this?

What is transamination?

complete the following equation;
Glutimate + H2O + ____ -->

What is alanine converted into when energy demand is high? and where is this product taken?

Describe the process of forming a protein.

What are Chaperonins?

What bond are amino acids connected by? What part of the amino acids join, and what is released during this reaction?

Describe the process a chaperonin molecule undergoes for help a protein form.

Give three reasons post-transnational processing is required.

What type of enzyme breaks down proteins?

Why is protein breakdown necessary?

What processes can amino acids be used in to create energy?

What macronutrients can reduce the breakdown of protein as an energy source?

Give details of the Ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.

What process must proteins undertake before they can be broken down by lysosomes?