Biochemistry - Amino Acid Metabolism - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Amino Acid Metabolism - Section 1 (Q.No. 3)
3.
A glucogenic amino acid is one which is degraded to
keto-sugars
either acetyl CoA or acetoacetyl CoA
pyruvate or citric acid cycle intermediates
none of the above
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Robinson said:   10 years ago
Glucogenic amino acid are those that their carbon skeleton is degraded to pyruvate or alpha keto glutarate which is a TCA cycle intermediate.
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Emanuel john said:   1 decade ago
Glucogenic amino acids are the one which can be converted to pyruvate during gluconeo genesis pathway.

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