{"id":1914,"date":"2020-08-19T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meddists.com\/learn\/pre-clinical\/biochemistry\/biochemistry-of-the-metabolism\/amino-acid-metabolism\/amino-acids-in-human-metabolism\/"},"modified":"2021-12-02T23:02:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:02:42","slug":"amino-acids-in-human-metabolism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meddists.com\/learn\/pre-clinical\/biochemistry\/biochemistry-of-the-metabolism\/amino-acid-metabolism\/amino-acids-in-human-metabolism\/","title":{"rendered":"Amino Acids in Human Metabolism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div class=\"intro\"> The amino acid metabolism is a bit different compared to glucose or even lipid metabolism. It is important to see that based on the type of the amino acids the metabolism can relate to the lipid intermediates or to the glucose metabolism, by which we distinguish between <strong>ketogenic<\/strong> or <strong>glucogenic<\/strong> amino acids <\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If an amino acid is involved in glycolysis and the carbohydrate metabolism it is called \u201c<strong>glucogenic<\/strong>\u201c<\/li><li>If an amino acid is involved in lipid metabolism, it is called \u201c<strong>ketogenic<\/strong>\u201c<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Based on their type we also distinguished between purely ketogenic or glycogenic or semi-ketogenic, semi-glycogenic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meddists.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AA2-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Amino Acids in Human Metabolism\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meddists.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AA2-1-1024x918.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8656\" width=\"512\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meddists.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AA2-1-1024x918.png 1024w, https:\/\/meddists.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AA2-1-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/meddists.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AA2-1-768x688.png 768w, https:\/\/meddists.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AA2-1-1536x1377.png 1536w, https:\/\/meddists.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AA2-1-2048x1835.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption> <strong>Figure 1. <\/strong>Amino acids based on their metabolic target <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In humans, the&nbsp;<strong>glucogenic<\/strong>&nbsp;amino acids are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Alanine \u2013&nbsp;<strong>ALA<\/strong><\/li><li>Arginine \u2013&nbsp;<strong>ARG<\/strong><\/li><li>Asparagine \u2013&nbsp;<strong>ASP<\/strong><\/li><li>Aspartic acid \u2013&nbsp;<strong>AST<\/strong><\/li><li>Cysteine \u2013&nbsp;<strong>CYS<\/strong><\/li><li>Glutamic acid \u2013&nbsp;<strong>GLU<\/strong><\/li><li>Glutamine \u2013&nbsp;<strong>GLN<\/strong><\/li><li>Glycine \u2013&nbsp;<strong>GLY<\/strong><\/li><li>Histidine \u2013&nbsp;<strong>HYS<\/strong><\/li><li>Methionine \u2013&nbsp;<strong>MET<\/strong><\/li><li>Proline \u2013&nbsp;<strong>PRO<\/strong><\/li><li>Serine \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SER<\/strong><\/li><li>Valine \u2013&nbsp;<strong>VAL<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amino acids that are <strong>both glucogenic and ketogenic<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Phenylalanine \u2013 <strong>PHE<\/strong><\/li><li>Isoleucine \u2013 <strong>ILE<\/strong><\/li><li>Threonine \u2013 <strong>THR<\/strong><\/li><li>Tryptophan \u2013 <strong>TRP<\/strong><\/li><li>Tyrosine \u2013 <strong>TYR<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The purely <strong>ketogenic<\/strong> amino acids are only:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Leucine &#8211; <strong>LEU<\/strong><\/li><li>Lysine &#8211; <strong>LYS<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<span class=\"block-heading\" id=\"header_1\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"title_collection title1\">References<\/h2>\n<\/span><span class=\"block-content\" id=\"contents_1\">\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">S<span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">nider MDS. Devlin\u2019s <strong>Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations<\/strong>, the 8th Edition. John Wiley &amp; Sons, Incorporated, 2020; 2019.<\/span>  <\/p>\n<\/span><div id=\"the_titles\" style=\"display:none;\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">References<\/h2><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an amino acid is involved in glycolysis and the carbohydrate metabolism it is called \u201cglucogenic\u201c If an amino acid is involved in lipid metabolism, it is called \u201cketogenic\u201c Based on their type we also distinguished between purely ketogenic or glycogenic or semi-ketogenic, semi-glycogenic. In humans, the&nbsp;glucogenic&nbsp;amino acids are: Alanine \u2013&nbsp;ALA Arginine \u2013&nbsp;ARG Asparagine \u2013&nbsp;ASP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1714,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1914","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amino Acids in Human Metabolism &#8211; Meddists<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/meddists.com\/learn\/pre-clinical\/biochemistry\/biochemistry-of-the-metabolism\/amino-acid-metabolism\/amino-acids-in-human-metabolism\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/meddists.com\\\/learn\\\/pre-clinical\\\/biochemistry\\\/biochemistry-of-the-metabolism\\\/amino-acid-metabolism\\\/amino-acids-in-human-metabolism\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/meddists.com\\\/learn\\\/pre-clinical\\\/biochemistry\\\/biochemistry-of-the-metabolism\\\/amino-acid-metabolism\\\/amino-acids-in-human-metabolism\\\/\",\"name\":\"Amino Acids in Human Metabolism &#8211; 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