ANN 111: Principles of Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology (2+1)

FUNCTIONS

• Biotin serves as the prosthetic group of several enzymes which catalyse the transfer of carbon dioxide from one substrate to another.
• In animals there are three biotin-dependent enzymes of particular important:
• pyruvate carboxylase,
• accetyl coenzyme A carboxylase,
• propionyl coenzyme A carboxylase.