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Transamination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (195 words) |
 | Transamination is the reaction between an amino acid and an alpha-keto acid. |
| Transamination in biochemistry is accomplished by enzymes called transaminases or aminotransferases. |
| The chirality of an amino acid is determined during transamination. |
| Amino Acid Metabolism (3903 words) |
| The importance of glutamate as a common intracellular amino donor for transamination reactions and of aspartate as a precursor of ornithine for the urea cycle is described in the Nitrogen Metabolism page. |
| The reaction is a transamination in which the e-amino group is transferred to the a-keto carbon of a-ketoglutarate forming the metabolite, saccharopine. |
| Because this transamination reaction is not reversible, lysine is an essential amino acid. |
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