Amino Acids
What are they?
It is a simple organic compound containing both a carboxyl and an amino.
How many does it take to make up a protein?
21 amino acids to make all the proteins.
Branched-Chain Amino Acids are what?
Essential
Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Threonine, Tryptophan, and Valine.
Nonessential
Alanine, Arginine, Asparagine, Aspartic acid, Cysteine, Glutamic acid, Glutamine, Glycine, Proline, Serine, and Tyrosine.
Denaturation
What is it?
It is a disruption of stability; the protein lose shape.
Why does it matter?
It is important for a better absorption of the protein in the body.
Tell what the end products of Denaturation are?
The end product of denaturation goes to stomach acid in a different shape to facility the absorption of the protein.
Hemoglobin
What is this?
is the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of all vertebrates.
What does it do?
Hemoglobin in the blood carries oxygen from the respiratory organs to the rest of the body.
Collagen
What is this?
It is the main structural protein in the extracellular space in the various connective tissues in animal bodies.
What does this do?
Replacement of dead or damage cells.
Starving and Protein
Correlation
Starvation reduces energy and glucose (found in protein).
Is this the only nutrient used
No, insufficient carbohydrate intake also helps to reduce energy and glucose.
How important is water when you are on a high protein diet?
The absorption of protein takes a lot of water to make urea.
Why?
Because to make it, liver has to release urea into blood, and kidneys need to filter urea out of blood.
Does this or can this high protein diet effect your kidneys/urine?
Yes, it can affect your kidneys/urine causing a disease.
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BCAA is an amino acid having aliphatic side-chains with a branch (a central carbon atom bound to three or
more carbon atoms).
There is a daily recommended protein intake.
What is it for regular people?
10 to 35 percent of daily energy intake.
What is it for athletes?
0.8 grams/ kg of body weight / day.
Describe Urea.
What it is and what is caused by? Harmful?
The final nitrogenous excretion product of many organisms. The chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized
from ammonia and carbon dioxide. The high level of urea in the body can cause liver disease, and kidney disease.
Regarding Roles of Proteins, what hormones are affected by Protein ingestion and how/why?
Hormones of blood are affected by protein ingestion. Because protein has to be filter from the blood by liver and
kidneys.
Describe how protein is used in the immune system.
Proteins catalyze reactions in our bodies, transport molecules such as oxygen, keep us healthy as part of the immune
system and transmit messages from cell to cell.
Is there a Better Protein? What is it? Why?
Animal proteins, and plant proteins. Because low-quality proteins combined to provide adequate levels of essential
amino acids for the body.
