Now, what happens to that glutamate? What is glutamate actually used for? Well, glutamate is actually used in the transamination reaction that we mentioned in step four, that glutamate has an amino group, and that amino group is essentially taken off from that glutamate. It is placed onto axylopetate, and that's how we form the aspartate. And the remaining portion that is left over once we essentially deaminate that glutamate. That is what we call alpha ketoglutrate.