Amino Acid Catabolism 2
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Amino Acid Catabolism
Disposal of Nitrogen and Carbon
Skeletons
Clinical Case Study
Male infant, 2.9 kg at birth, healthy
Day 3 - seizures
Mother with history of aversion to meat
vomiting and lethargy
plasma [NH4+] = 240 uM (25-40 normal)
hyperammonemia
mild alkalosis (pH=7.5, normal 7.35-7.45)
Clinical Case Study
Plasma AA
gln = 2400 uM (350-650)
ala = 750 uM (8-25)
arg = 5 uM (30-125)
cit = undetectable
Urinary orotic acid = 285 ug/mg
creatinine (0.3-10)
Clinical Case Study
Oral therapy initiated
EAA + arginine
Sodium benzoate
Patient improves after 7 days
Plasma [NH4+] normalized
Overview of Amino Acid Catabolism:
Interorgan Relationships
Overview of Amino Acid Catabolism:
Interorgan Relationships
Intestine
Dietary amino acids absorbed
Utilizes glutamine and asparagine as energy
sources
Releases CO2, ammonium, alanine, citrulline as
endproducts
Utilizes glutamine during fasting for energy
Dietary amino acids and catabolites released
to portal blood
Enteral Formulas containing
glutamine
JUVEN is a therapeutic
nutritional that contains a
patented blend of
arginine, glutamine, and
HMB (beta-hydroxy-betamethylbutyrate). JUVEN
has been clinically shown
to help build lean body
mass (LBM),1,2 enhance
immune response,2 and
promote collagen
synthesis
Overview of Amino Acid Catabolism:
Interorgan Relationships
Liver
Synthesis of liver and plasma proteins
Catabolism of amino acids
Gluconeogenesis
Ketogenesis
Branched chain amino acids not catabolized
Urea synthesis
Amino acids released into general circulation
Enriched (% of total aa) in BCAA (2-3X)
Overview of Amino Acid Catabolism:
Interorgan Relationships
Skeletal Muscle
Muscle protein synthesis
Catabolism of BCAA
Amino groups transported away as alanine and glutamine
(50% of AA released)
Alanine to liver for gluconeogenesis
Glutamine to kidneys
Kidney
Glutamine metabolized to a-KG + NH4
a-KG for gluconeogenesis
NH4 excreted or used for urea cycle (arginine synthesis)
Important buffer preventing acidosis
[NH4+] : [NH3] = 100 : 1
Overview of Amino Acid Catabolism:
Interorgan Relationships
Vitamin-Coenzymes
in Amino Acid Metabolism
Vitamin B-6 (pyridoxal phosphate)
Folic acid (tetrahydrofolate)
Vitamin B-12
Vitamin-Coenzymes
in Amino Acid Metabolism
Vitamin B-6 : pyridoxal
phosphate
Enzymes that bind amino
acids use PLP as
coenzyme for binding
Transaminases
Amino acid
decarboxylases
Amino acid deaminases
Vitamin-Coenzymes
in Amino Acid Metabolism
Folacin:
Tetrahydrofolate
(THF)
Carrier of single
carbons
Donor & receptor
Glycine and serine
Tryptophan degradation
Histidine degradation
Purine and pyrimidine
synthesis
Vitamin-Coenzymes in Amino
Acid Metabolism
Vitamin B-12
Catabolism of BCAA
Methyl-malonyl CoA
mutase (25-9 &10)
Vitamin-Coenzymes in Amino
Acid Metabolism
Vitamin B-12
Methionine
synthesis/recycling
Methionine as a methyl
donor
Choline and creatine
synthesis
Homocysteine is product
HCys -> Met requires B12
Figure 26-4
Overview of Amino Acid Catabolism:
Interorgan Relationships
How does this occur?
Disposal of Amino Acids Nitrogen:
Key reactions
Transamination reactions
Deamination reactions
Glutamate dehydrogenase
Hydrolytic deamination
Glutaminase
Glutamine synthesis
Disposal of Amino Groups:
Transamination Reactions
Often the first step of amino acid degradation
Transfer of amino group from many amino acids
to limited number of keto acid acceptors
Pyruvate <-> alanine
Oxaloacetate <-> aspartate
Alpha-keto-glutarate <-> glutamate
Disposal of Amino Groups:
Transamination Reactions
Transamination reactions tend to channel amino
groups on to glutamate
Glutamate’s central role in amino acid N metabolism
Disposal of Amino Groups:
Transamination Reactions
Transaminase reactions are reversible
ALT = SGOT
ALA important in muscle where ~25% of AA-N is transported
out on ALA
In liver, reverse reaction moves AA-N back on GLU
AST = SGPT
ASP important in liver since half of urea-N is from ASP
Disposal of Amino Groups:
Deamination Reactions
Glutamate dehydrogenase
oxidative deamination
Important in liver where it releases ammonia for urea
synthesis
Hydrolytic deamination
Glutaminase & asparaginase
Disposal of Amino Groups:
Glutamine Synthetase
Important plasma transport form of nitrogen from
muscle
Detoxification of ammonia
Brain
Liver
Removes ammonia intestinal tract
Bacterial deamination of amino acids
Glutamine utilization in intestinal cells
Overview of Amino Acid Catabolism:
Interorgan Relationships
Movement of amino acid nitrogen:
post-absorptive and fasting states
From extra-hepatic tissues (muscle) to
liver
Site of gluconeogenesis and ketogenesis
Site of urea synthesis
All amino acids present in plasma but
enriched (~50%) in alanine and glutamine
Production of ALA & GLN in
extrahepatic tissues
Transamination of AA to form GLU
Formation of ALA
AA + aKG <-> aKA + GLU
GLU + pyr <-> aKG + ALA
Formation of GLN
GLU <-> aKG + NH3
NH3 + GLU -> GLN
Overview of Amino Acid Catabolism:
Interorgan Relationships
Detoxification of Ammonia by the
Liver: the Urea Cycle
Amino acid N flowing to liver as:
Alanine & glutamine
Other amino acids
Ammonia (from portal blood)
Urea
chief N-excretory compound
Detoxification of Ammonia by the
Liver: the Urea Cycle
Contains all enzyme
of urea cycle
Site of urea synthesis
Kidney has all urea
cycle enzymes except
arginase
Site of arginine
synthesis
Mitochondria
CPS regulatory
enzyme
Flow of Nitrogen from Amino
Acids to Urea in Liver
Amino acid flow from muscle to
liver
Alanine & glutamine
Liver
Transfers N to GLU
GLN’ase & GDH
Transaminases
Transfers GLU-N to:
ASP
AST
Transamination route
NH3
GDH
Trans-deamination route
GLN’ase
Transfers N to urea
Ammonia detoxification
by the liver
Liver very effective at
eliminating ammonia from
blood
Periportal hepatocytes
Portal blood ammonia = 300 –
1000 uM
Systemic blood ammonia =
20uM
Urea synthesis
Km CPS ~ 1mM
Perivenous hepatocytes
Glutamine synthesis
Very low Km for ammonia
Removes any NH3 not
removed by periportal
hepatocytes
Clinical Case Study
Male infant, 2.9 kg at birth, healthy
Day 3 - seizures
Mother with history of aversion to meat
vomiting and lethargy
plasma NH4+ = 240 uM (25-40 normal)
hyperammonemia
mild alkalosis (pH=7.5, normal 7.35-7.45)
Clinical Case Study
Plasma AA
gln = 2400 uM (350-650)
ala = 750 uM (8-25)
arg = 5 uM (30-125)
cit = undetectable
Urinary orotic acid = 285 ug/mg
creatinine (0.3-10)
Resolution of Clinical Case
Diagnosis of neonatal
hyperammonemia
symptoms
blood ammonium concentration
Defect in urea cycle
elevated glutamine and alanine
low or absent arginine and citrulline
Detoxification
of Ammonia
by the Liver:
the Urea
Cycle
Resolution of Clinical Case
Genetic deficiency of ornithine
transcarbamoylase
urinary orotic acid
CP
spills into cytosol where enters
pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway, orotic acid
an intermediate in the pathway
Resolution of Clinical Case
source of orotic acid
Clinical Case Study
Treatment
Oral therapy essential amino acids
arginine
sodium benzoate
@7 days clinically well
normal NH4+
Resolution of Clinical Case:
Treatment
Essential Amino Acids
Arginine
w/o urea cycle, becomes essential
Benzoic acid
conjugates with glycine and excreted in urine as
hippuric acid
glycine in equilibrium with ammonia
Glycine synthase
CO2 + Me-THF + NADH + NH3 => glycine
removal results in reducing ammonia levels
Resolution of Clinical Case:
Genetics
Gene for OTC found on X-chromosome
Women are carriers
usually asymptomatic
may experience migraines, vomiting, lethargy
when eating high protein meals (meat)
OTC deficiency most common (but rare)
disorders of the urea cycle (1: 20-80,000)