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Glutamate is the major nitrogen donor in metabolism. a Glutamate is the nitrogen donor, through glycine and aspartate, for about half of the nitrogens, indicated in red, in nucleotides. b Glutamate donates nitrogen for other amino acids through the action of glutamate transaminases. c Carbons in proline and arginine that come from glutamate are indicated by red circles
