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What is a deamination?

What is a deamination? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) The removal of an amino group from a compound.
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The product of deamination by guanase, 6-thioxanthine is inactive, having negligible antitumor activity.
Metabolism of amino acids involves deamination and transamination reactions.
The liver, influenced by protein intake and anabolic need, makes urea from deamination of amino acids in the Krebs urea cycle.
In comparison with the deamination of cytosine to uracil, the deamination of DNA purines is a minor reaction.
A further molecule of ammonia is obtained by the deamination of glutamic acid to form glutaric acid, which is then metabolized.
The deamination product of adenine is hypoxanthine, and hypoxanthine base pairs with cytosine rather than thymine.

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