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Amino acid metabolism /
"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 mic...
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Chichester, West Sussex :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2012.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Nitrogen metabolism
- Nitrogen balance and protein turnover : protein and amino acids in human nutrition
- The role of vitamin B6 in amino acid metabolism
- Glycine, serine, and the one-carbon pool
- Amino acids synthesised from glutamate : glutamine, proline, ornithine, citrulline, and arginine
- Amino acids synthesised from aspartate : lysine, methionine (and cysteine), threonine and isoleucine
- The branched-chain amino acids, leucine, isoleucine, and valine
- Histidine
- The aromatic amino acids, phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan.