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The main steps of the ammonia loss pathway: (a) local proton transfer reactions lead to tautomers with the NH3 leaving group (b) loss of ammonia leaves reactive -N=C=NH2+ or -NH+=C=NH moieties behind. Only the arginine side chain is shown for clarity.
