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METABOLISM
METABOLISM
METABOLISM
College of Medicine
Metabolism module
Session 6
skeletal muscle
adipose tissue
liver
• insulin
• growth hormone
o half-life of a body protein
about 80 days
• pyruvate, oxaloacetate
• α-ketoglutarate, succinate
• acetyl CoA, fumarate
ketogenic , synthesis of ketone body
glucogenic, synthesis of glucose
o transamination and deamination LO-5
transamination
• removal of the amino group (-NH) of amino acid to other amino acid
transaminases
alanine aminotransferase, glutamate-pyruvate transaminase
aspartate aminotransferase, glutamate-oxaloacetate transaminase
deamination
• removal of the amino group (-NH) of amino acid to free NH3 (NH+)
o constitute of
GOD