Metabolism — Flashcards

Which pancreatic protease cleaves all pancreatic proenzymes to their active forms? _____

What part of the cell is the site of steroid synthesis and detoxification of drugs and poisons?_____

Insulin stimulates amino acid uptake into cells and _____ protein synthesis in muscles

The _____ subunits of the insulin receptor are connected by a disulfide bond and lie in the extracellular domain

Where in the cell does cross-linking of elastin take place? _____

Which glycogen storage disorder is associated with accumulation of limit dextrin-like structures? _____

Patients with _____ have decreased reabsorption of cystine, ornithine, lysine, and arginine

Vitamin B12 deficiency is characterized by _____ serum homocysteine

Cystine is made of two _____ amino acids connected by a disulfide bond

Azathioprine and 6-mercaptopurine increase cellular levels of _____