A love affair with vitamins

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 284, Issue 39, 2009, Pages 26217-26228

  Matthews, Rowena G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; FLAVOPROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HISTIDINE; MECOBALAMIN; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; QUERCETIN; RETINOL; RHODOPSIN; RIBOFLAVIN; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; VANILLIN;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

5-METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; DISULFIDES; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TETRAHYDROFOLATES; THIOCTIC ACID; VITAMINS;

EID: 70350353513     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.X109.041178     Document Type: Article

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