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Oxidative deamination
Oxidative deamination is a form of deamination that generates oxoacids in the liver.
The presence of nitrous acid can cause transition mutations, by converting cytosine to uracil.[1][2]
In Urea cycle
Glutamate is the only amino acid that undergoes rapid oxidative deamination. This process leads to 2 toxic products:
See also
References
- ^ http://www.mun.ca/biochem/courses/3107/Topics/Mutations.html
- ^ http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/newton/ askasci/1993/chem/CHEM016.HTM
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