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Amino-acid Oxidation
Department of Biochemistry
Specific Learning Objectives
Fates of Amino Acids
Amino Acid Utilization
Amino-group metabolism
Explain role of transamination reactions in aa synthesis and identify vitamin
essential for this reaction (tie in to urea cycle)
Describe interconversion between ketoacids and aa, including requirement of
pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) as a cofactor
Outline formation and transport of ammonia
Describe importance of reactions catalyzed by glutamine synthetase, glutaminase,
and glutamate dehydrogenase
Ammonia Intoxication
List causes for hyperammonemia, its consequences, and treatments to reduce
blood ammonia levels
Overview of AA catabolism
Fig18.1: Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry by David L Nelson, 6th Ed
Amino Acid oxidative degradation
It occurs in three metabolic circumstances:
1. During normal synthesis and degradation of Proteins (Protein turnover)
? Some aa released from proteins breakdown and not needed for new protein
synthesis
2. If diet is rich in protein and ingested aa exceeds the body needs for protein
synthesis, in this case surplus catabolized
2. During starvation or in uncontrolled diabetes, when carbohydrates either
unavailable or not properly utilized, in this case cellular proteins are used as a
fuel
Cont--
Under all above conditions, aa lose their amino groups to form -keto acids and
also form carbon skeletons of aa:
? -keto acids undergo oxidation to CO and H O
2
2
? 3-4 carbon units its converted into glucose by gluconeogenesis, fuel for brain,
skeletal muscel and other tissues
Four aa plays imp role in nitrogen metabolism: Glutamate, Glutamine, (both
converted to -ketoglutarate), Alanine (to pyruvate) and Aspartate (to
oxaloacetate)
Fates of Amino Acids
For Protein synthesis
For synthesis of other nitrogen containing compounds (heme, creatine,
purines, pyrimidines, choline, neurotransmitters)
For gluconeogenesis
Energy source from glucogenic aa and ketogenic aa
Glucogenic aa: Give rise to a net production of pyruvate or TCA cycle
intermediates, such as -ketoglutarate , succinyl CoA, Fumarate and
oxaloacetate, all of which are precursors to glucose via gluconeogenesis.
Ex. Ala & Arg
Cont--
Ketogenic aa: Lysine and leucine are only aa are ketogenic, give rise to
acetyl-CoA or acetoacetyl-CoA, neither of which can bring about net
glucose production
Glucogenic and Ketogenic aa: Small group of aa comprised of Ile, Phe,
Thr, Trp, and Tyr give rise to both glucose and fatty acid precursors and
characterized as glucogenic and ketogenic
Steps for Amino group catabolism
In cytosol of liver cells, amino groups from most aa transferred to -
ketoglutarate to form glutamate, which enters mitochondria and gives up its
amino group to form ammonia
Excess ammonia generated in most tissues converted to amide nitrogen of
glutamine, which passes to liver, then into liver mitochondria
In skeletal muscle, excess amino groups are transferred to pyruvate to form
alanine
Aspartate come into play in metabolic processes that occur once amino
groups delivered to liver
Amino group catabolism
Fig18.2 (a): Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry by David L Nelson, 6th Ed
Amino Acid Utilization
Degradation of an aa in two stages:
a) Carbon skeleton, is then converted to
pyruvate, acetyl CoA, or citric acid cycle
intermediate, depending on its makeup,
with resulting energy production or
energy storage
b) Amino nitrogen atom is removed and
converted to ammonium ion, which
ultimately excreted from body as urea.
Amino-group metabolism
? -amino group is nitrogen source during aa
metabolism
? Nitrogen is removed from aa as a ammonia, which
needs to be detoxified to urea
Three steps involved in flow of nitrogen from aa to
urea:
(1) Transamination (amino group transferred to
glutamate),
(2) Oxidative deamination of glutamate (removal of
amino group),
(3) Synthesis of Urea
Fig 19.15. Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews, Biochemistry, 6th Ed
Transamination
? -NH2 group of one aa is transferred
to a -ketoacid resulting in formation
of a new aa and a new ketoacid
? Donor aa (I) becomes a new ketoacid
(I) after losing the -NH2 group, and
recipient ketoacid (II) becomes a new
aa (II) after receiving the NH2 group
Text Book of Medical Biochemistry by Chatterjee & Rana Shinde, 8th Ed
Cont--
? -amino group from L-amino acid is
transferred to -carbon atom of -
ketoglutarate, produced -keto acid and
glutamate
? Transfer of amino groups from one carbon
skeleton to another is catalyzed by
aminotransferases
? Al aminotransferases have prosthetic group,
which is pyridoxal phosphate (PLP),
coenzyme form of pyridoxine or vitamin B
Fig18.4: Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry by David L Nelson
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Cont--
? PLP participates in transfer of -amino groups to -
ketoglutarate
? Location: cytoplasm of all cells
? Enzyme: Transaminases (aminotransferases)
? Co-factor: Pyridoxal phosphate (PLP), derivative of
vitamin B6
? Common donor/acceptor pair: -ketoglutarate and
glutamate
Cont--
Glutamate function as excretion pathways that lead to elimination of
nitrogenous waste products
Al aa except lysine and threonine participate in transamination in
their catabolism but they undergo deamination reaction
Two aminotransferase reactions are catalyzed by alanine
aminotransferase (ALT ) and aspartate transferases (AST)
Cont--
Alanine aminotransferase: In this alanine is donor aa and
-ketoglutarate is recipient ketoacid resulting in formation
of pyruvate and glutamate.
? During aa catabolism, this enzyme functions in direction
of glutamate synthesis.
Aspartate aminotransferase: In this Aspartic acid is donor
aa and -ketoglutarate is recipient ketoacid.
? During aa catabolism, this enzyme transfers amino
groups from glutamate to oxaloacetate, forming
aspartate, which is used as a source of nitrogen in urea
cycle.
Fig 19.8. Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews, Biochemistry, 6th Ed
Diagnostic value of plasma aminotransferases
Alanine aminotransferase
Normal enzyme activity is 3 to 15 IU/L
It is entirely cytoplasmic
Increases in viral hepatitis, diabetes, congestive heart failure, liver
damage
Aspartate aminotransferase
Normal enzyme activity is 4 to 17 I.U/L
It is cytoplasmic and also mitochondrial
Increases in Liver diseases, muscular dystrophies, acute pancreatitis,
leukaemias, acute haemolytic anaemia
Oxidative Deamination
? Glutamate releases its amino group as ammonia in
Liver
? Amino groups from many of -aa are collected in liver
in form of amino group of L-glutamate molecules
L-Glutamate semialdehyde
? These amino groups must next be removed from
glutamate to prepare them for excretion
? In hepatocytes, glutamate is transported from cytosol
into mitochondria, where it undergoes oxidative
deamination
catalyzed
by
L-glutamate
Fig18.7: Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry by David L Nelson, 6th Ed
dehydrogenase
Cont--
It is only enzyme that can use either NAD+ or NADP+ as acceptor of
reducing equivalents
Oxidative deamination of glutamate is main mechanism for release of
aa nitrogen as ammonia (NH4+) in a reversible reaction.
Location: Mitochondria of hepatocytes
Al osteric regulation of oxidative deamination: High energy state inhibits
GDH and low energy state stimulates enzyme.
Transdeamination
Transfer of amino nitrogen to -ketoglutarate forms l-glutamate by
glutamate aminotransferases
Hepatic l-glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), which can use either NAD+ or
NADP+, convert glutamate to -ketoglutarate, releases this nitrogen as
ammonia, this -ketoglutarate used in TCA cycle and glucose synthesis
Conversion of -amino nitrogen to ammonia by coordinated action of
glutamate aminotransferase and GDH is "transdeamination"
Cont--
Liver GDH activity is allosterically inhibited by ATP, GTP, and NADH,
and is activated by ADP
GDH reaction is freely reversible, and also functions in aa
biosynthesis
-ketoglutarate formed from glutamate deamination can be used in
citric acid cycle and for glucose synthesis
Clinical-cases discussed
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