Ketogenic amino acid

Ketogenic amino acid

A ketogenic amino acid is an amino acid that can be converted into ketone bodies through ketogenesis. This is in contrast to the glucogenic amino acids, which are converted into glucose.

In humans, the ketogenic amino acids are leucine and lysine, whereas threonine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, and tyrosine can be either ketogenic or glucogenic.

ee also

* List of standard amino acids
* Glucogenic amino acid
* Ketogenesis
* Metabolism

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]


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