Hydrolyze

... to be deaminated via Alanine transminase, that uses PLP as a cofactor to transfer the amino group to a-ketoglutarate. Alanine then needs to be hydrolyzed and oxidized to yield Pyruvate. It's probably simpler and more energetically favorable to oxidize lactate, than to deaminate, hydrolyze, ...

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What is 'gluten' exactly? Is it a single protein or a class of proteins? Do people lack an enzyme to hydrolyze it? Thanks.

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... possible to digest grass after boiling, which is technically possible, although questionable, whether boiling on open fire would be sufficient to hydrolyze all the polysaccharides. Usage of all kinds of -icides may be widespread, but first, it probably won't be used in wildness, where probably ...

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Hi everybody, I was wondering why phospholipases that hydrolyze membranes contained in organelles such as autophagosomes and multivesicular bodies do not destroy the entire membrane of the organelle. Thank you in advance for your help.

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Hydrolyze the starch enzymatically (eg. by addition od amylase), then quantify glucose. For example: http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v1/n3/abs/nprot.2006.232.html I don't think that would work very well because that would ...

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