Facilitating understanding of the purine nucleotide cycle and the one-carbon pool: Part I: The purine nucleotide cycle

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 165-168

  Arinze, Ifeanyi J ^a  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; AMP deaminase; Branched chain amino acids; Glutamine

Indexed keywords

BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; CARBON; FUMARIC ACID; NITROGEN; PURINE NUCLEOTIDE;

CARBON CYCLE; CATABOLISM; METABOLISM; MUSCLE METABOLISM; REVIEW;

EID: 18844439954     PISSN: 14708175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bmb.2005.494033032469     Document Type: Review

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