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Transamination
Introduction:
Most amino acids are deaminated by Transamination (or transfer of amino group), a chemical reaction that transfer their amino group to an ketoacid forming new amino acids. This is one among the major degradation pathway to convert essential aminoacids to nonessential aminoacids (amino acids that can be synthesized de novo by the organism).

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