KROK 1 2009 – Question 116 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
On the ground of clinical presentations a patient was prescribed pyridoxal phosphate. This medication is recommended for correction of the following processes:
- A. Transamination and decarboxylation of amino acids
- B. Protein synthesis
- C. Oxidative decarboxylation of ketonic acids
- D. Synthesis of purine and pyrimidin bases
- E. Desamination of purine nucleotides
Hint
Recall which nitrogen-handling reactions depend on a coenzyme that forms a Schiff base with its substrate.
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