Amino-acid catabolysis makes energy {amino-acid oxidation}. Liver mitochondria have amino-acid oxidation. Protein-hormone, purine, pyrimidine, vitamin, and porphyrin metabolism involves amino-acid oxidation. Transamination, to make alpha-ketoacid, or deamination, through oxidation by NAD+ to make carbohydrate, removes amino group. Oxidation removes amino acid side chains. Oxidized amino acids become pyruvate, acetyl-CoA, alpha-ketoglutarate, succinyl-CoA, fumarate, or oxaloacetate, for use in TCA cycle.
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