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deamination

Removal of the amino group (NH2) from an unwanted amino acid. This is the nitrogen-containing part, and it is converted into ammonia, uric acid, or urea (depending on the type of animal) to be excreted in the urine.

In vertebrates, deamination occurs in the liver.


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16) Inosine monophosphate, a product of adenosine monophosphate deamination, is not detectable at rest in people without known pathology or impairments.
Both are cytosine-to-tymine transitions, which easily occur by spontaneous cytosine deamination to uracil.
For other targets, such as Lox, the connections between predictor and target gene were less clear, Lox is an extracellular and intracellular copper-containing enzyme that initiates cross-linking of collagen and elastin by catalyzing oxidative deamination of the epsilon-amino group in certain lysine and hydroxylysine residues of collagens and lysine residues of elastin.
 
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