urea cycle

urea cycle
a series of metabolic reactions, occurring in the liver, by which ammonia is converted to urea using cyclically regenerated ornithine as a carrier. See illustration.

Urea cycle. Diagrammatic representation of reactions by which excess nitrogen in the form of ammonia is converted to soluble urea, using L-ornithine as a recyclable carrier. Enzymes involved are denoted by circled numerals: (1), carbamoyl-phosphate synthase (ammonia); (2), ornithine carbamoyltransferase; (3), argininosuccinate synthase; (4), argininosuccinate lyase; (5), arginase.


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