Glucogenic amino acid

A glucogenic amino acid is an amino acid that can be converted into glucose through gluconeogenesis. [cite journal |author=Brosnan J |title=Interorgan amino acid transport and its regulation |url=http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/133/6/2068S |journal=J Nutr |volume=133 |issue=6 Suppl 1 |pages=2068S–2072S |year=2003 |pmid=12771367] [cite journal |author=Young V, Ajami A |title=Glutamine: the emperor or his clothes? |url=http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/131/9/2449S |journal=J Nutr |volume=131 |issue=9 Suppl |pages=2449S–59S; discussion 2486S–7S |year=2001 |pmid=11533293] This is in contrast to the ketogenic amino acids that are converted into ketone bodies.

In humans, the glucogenic amino acids are:
*glycine
*serine
*valine
*histidine
*arginine
*cysteine
*proline
*alanine
*glutamate
*glutamine
*aspartate
*asparagine
*methionine

Amino acids that can be either glucogenic or ketogenic:
*isoleucine
*threonine
*phenylalanine
*tyrosine
*tryptophan

ee also

* List of standard amino acids
* Glycolysis
* Ketogenic amino acid
* Metabolism

References

External links

* [http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/amino-acid-metabolism.html Amino acid metabolism]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=stryer.chapter.3193 Chapter on Amino acid catabolism in "Biochemistry" by Jeremy Berg, John Tymoczko, Lubert Stryer. Fourth ed. by Lubert Stryer. ISBN 0-7167-4955-6 Accessed 2007-03-17]
* [http://www.dentistry.leeds.ac.uk/biochem/thcme/aminoacidmetabolism.pdf Amino acid metabolism]