Protein Catabolism Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST: ammoniotelic : term used to describe organisms that release n as nh4+ - aquatic vertebrates and invertebrates are examples, glucogenic : term for amino acids that eventually give rise to glucose after degradation, pyruvate : the carbon skeleton of ala, cys, gly, ser, thr, and trp give rise to this molecule, ubiquitin : protein present in eukaryotic cells that marks proteins for degradation, fumarate : molecular link between the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle, acetyl coa : the carbon skeletons of ile, leu, and trp give rise to this molecule, pyridoxal phosphate : coenzyme of all aminotransferase enzymes, responsible for formation of schiff base, ketogenic : term for amino acids that give rise to ketone bodies or fatty acids after degradation, succinyl coa : the carbon skeleton of ile, met, thr, and val give rise to this molecule, four : number of ub molecules that is required to send a strong degradation signal, oxygenases : enzymes required for degradation of aromatic amino acids, mitochondria : deamination of amino acids occurs in this cellular location, gdh : abbreviation for the enzyme that catalyzes the oxidative deamination reaction responsible for liberating free nh4+, cytoplasm : hydrolysis of arginine to produce urea and ornithine occurs in this cellular location, lysine : amino acid residue that reacts with ubiquitin to form an isopeptide bond and tag a protein for degradation, liver : major site of amino acid degradation, carbamoyl phosphate : synthetase enzyme responsible for the committed step in the urea cycle, alanine : nitrogen atoms from bcaas used for fuel in the muscles are transported to the liver for degradation as this molecule, arginine : carbon skeleton of this molecule is conserved as fumarate