Vitamin C: Biosynthesis, recycling and degradation in mammals

FEBS Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-22

  Linster, Carole L ^b,c   Van Schaftingen, Emile ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

2,3 diketogulonate; Ascorbate; Dehydroascorbate; Glucuronate; Gulonolactonase; L gulonolactone oxidase; Semidehydroascorbate; UDP glucuronosyltransferases; Vitamin C; Xenobiotics

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; ASCORBIC ACID; CYTOCHROME B5 REDUCTASE; GLUCURONIC ACID; GLUTAREDOXIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GULONOLACTONE OXIDASE; PENTOSE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REGUCALCIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEFECT; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; HYDROLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; REVIEW; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; CARBOHYDRATE DEHYDROGENASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCURONATES; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; L-GULONOLACTONE OXIDASE; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCURONIC ACID;

CAVIA PORCELLUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845717875     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05607.x     Document Type: Review

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