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Re: Why did nature select the twenty amino acids that she did?
« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2013, 07:10:07 PM »
You make a good point with respect to collagen.  And I cannot think of any true coenzymes in glycolysis at the moment.  However, I don't see how transaminases could work without pyridoxal phosphate.  And I don't see the TCA cycle happening without thiamin pyrophosphate or at least a modified amino acid whose name escapes me at the moment. 

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