Plasma proteins have:  Specific functions

(antibodies & blood clotting proteins)

Nonspecific functions (carriers for various hormones, solutes, and drugs)

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Gluconeogenesis occurs in all animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. The reactions are essentially the same in all tissues and all species.

The important precursors of glucose in animals are three-carbon compounds such as lactate, pyruvate, and glycerol, as well as certain amino acids

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In mammals, gluconeogenesis takes place mainly in the liver, and to a lesser extent in renal cortex and in the epithelial cells that line the inside of the small intestine.

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Amino acids can undergo net conversion to glucose and are said to be glucogenic

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Transketolase catalyzes the transfer of a two carbon fragment from a ketose donor to an aldose acceptor with TPP

Transaldolase catalyses the transfer of a 3 carbon fragment

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