Q35E
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Isoleucine, another of the twenty amino acids found in proteins, metabolized by a pathway that includes the following step. Propose a mechanism.
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Isoleucine is metabolized by the given pathway.
1Isoleucine
Isoleucine is one of the twenty amino acids.
2Mechanism
The mechanism for the process is as follows,
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