Methionine and serine formation in control and mutant human cultured fibroblasts: Evidence for methyl trapping and characterization of remethylation defects

Pediatric Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 145-151

  Fowler, Brian ^a   Whitehouse, Catherine ^b   Wenzel, Friedel ^a   Wraith, James E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; SERINE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHYLMALONIC ACIDURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031031357     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199701000-00023     Document Type: Article

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