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AMINO-ACIDS are stable compounds which undergo de-amination only under drastic preparative conditions. De-amination of amino-acids in aqueous solutions, at physiological pH, and at room temperature occurs only in the presence of enzyme systems or by irradiation. The well-known enzymatic de-aminations are oxidative de-aminations leading to the formation of keto-acids and non-oxidative de-aminations yielding fatty acids and sometimes hydroxy acids.
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MELLA PAECHT, KATCHALSKY, A. Spontaneous De-amination of Amino-acid Phosphates under Physiological Conditions. Nature 184, 1489–1490 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841489a0
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