Amino Acid Metabolism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bender, David A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amino acids--Metabolism.

Amino acids.

Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins.

Metabolism.

Pharmaceutical Preparations.

Amino Acids.

Medical Subjects:

Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins.

Metabolism.

Pharmaceutical Preparations.

Amino Acids.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Amino Acid Metabolism, 3rd Edition covers all aspects of the biochemistry and nutritional biochemistry of the amino acids. Starting with an overview of nitrogen fixation and the incorporation of inorganic nitrogen into amino acids, the book then details other major nitrogenous compounds in micro-organisms, plants and animals. Contents include a discussion of the catabolism of amino acids and other nitrogenous compounds in animals, and the microbiological reactions involved in release of nitrogen gas back into the atmosphere. Mammalian (mainly human) protein and amino acid

Contents:

1.4.1 Purine synthesis 1.4.1.1 Phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate (PRPP) synthetase; 1.4.1.2 PRPP amidotransferase; 1.4.2 Purine catabolism and salvage; 1.4.2.1 Adenosine deaminase deficiency - severe combined immune deficiency; 1.4.2.2 Gout and hyperuricaemia; 1.4.2.3 HGPRT deficiency - the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome; 1.4.3 Pyrimidine synthesis; 1.4.3.1 Orotic aciduria; 1.4.4 Pyrimidine catabolism and salvage; 1.5 Deamination of amino acids; 1.5.1 Amino acid oxidases; 1.5.2 Amine oxidases; 1.5.3 Glutamate and alanine dehydrogenases; 1.5.4 Non-oxidative deamination of amino acids

1.5.5 Glutaminase and asparaginase 1.6 Excretion of nitrogenous waste; 1.6.1 Uricotelic and purinotelic species; 1.6.2 Ureotelic species; 1.6.2.1 Urea synthesis; 1.6.2.2 Inborn errors of metabolism affecting the urea synthesis cycle; 1.6.2.3 Entero-hepatic circulation of urea; 1.6.2.4 Canavanine; 1.7 Other nitrogenous compounds in human urine; 1.7.1 Aminoacidurias; Further reading; 2: Nitrogen Balance and Protein Turnover - Protein and Amino Acids in Human Nutrition; 2.1 Nitrogen balance and protein requirements; 2.1.1 Protein digestion and absorption

2.1.2 Protein digestibility and unavailable amino acids in dietary proteins 2.1.3 Obligatory nitrogen losses; 2.1.4 Dynamic equilibrium and tissue protein turnover; 2.1.5 Tissue protein catabolism; 2.1.5.1 Lysosomal autophagy; 2.1.5.2 Ubiquitin and the proteasome; 2.1.5.3 Active site proteolysis of apo-enzymes; 2.1.6 Whole body protein turnover; 2.1.6.1 The constant infusion, labelled precursor method; 2.1.6.2 The constant infusion, labelled end product method; 2.1.6.3 Rates of whole-body protein turnover; 2.1.6.4 The catabolic drive and amino acid oxidation

2.1.6.5 The energy cost of protein turnover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613854919

9781118358184

111835818X

9781283542463

1283542463

9781118358177

1118358171

9781118357514

1118357515

9781118358191

1118358198

OCLC:

799766415