Isoleucine: Quick Facts

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A metabolic pathway diagram for Escherichia coli showing how various nutrients-including sugars, fats, glycerol, and amino acids-are broken down into intermediates like pyruvate and acetyl-CoA, leading to the production of energy and other metabolites such as lactate, glutamate, and succinate. Arrows indicate the flow of metabolites between compounds, with key nutrient sources and products highlighted in colored boxes.

Diagram showing how point mutations, or single nucleotide changes in a codon, result in different amino acids in a protein. The central isoleucine codon (AUA) is surrounded by other codons, each differing by one nucleotide, with corresponding amino acid molecular structures and color-coded atoms.

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