生物化学甲课件-史锋 之一Amino acid oxidation.pptVIP

Amino Acid Oxidation and the Production of Urea Amino acids can be used as fuels in animals (especially in carnivores) Dietary proteins are enzymatically degraded to amino acids Enzymatic digestion begins in stomach and ends in small intestine Pepsin cleaves polypeptides into smaller peptides in stomach (N-term of Y, F, W); Trypsin and chymotrypsin further cleave the peptides in small intestine; Carboxypeptidase and aminopeptidase cleave the small peptides into amino acids, which are then absorbed and eventually delivered to liver. Amino acids in excess can neither be stored, nor excreted, bu