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Abstract
Starvation or feeding rats on a high-protein diet, valine or isoleucine, but not leucine, increases the activity of muscle phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, but has no effect on NADP+-linked malate dehydrogenase. This suggests that muscle phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is involved in oxidation or conversion of some amino acids to alanine.Entities:
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Year: 1978 PMID: 217368 PMCID: PMC1186277 DOI: 10.1042/bj1760623
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem J ISSN: 0264-6021 Impact factor: 3.857