Converging on a mechanism for choline degradation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 52, 2012, Pages 21184-21185

  Thibodeaux, Christopher J ^a   Van Der Donk, Wilfred A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ACETYLCHOLINE; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; CHOLINE; ETHANOLAMINE; GLYCEROL DEHYDROGENASE; METHIONINE; OXYGEN; PHOSPHOLIPID; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; TRIMETHYLAMINE;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIODEGRADATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATABOLISM; CELL GROWTH; COMMENSAL; COVALENT BOND; DESULFOVIBRIO; DESULFOVIBRIO ALASKENSIS; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; ENZYME MECHANISM; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LIVER DISEASE; METHANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE;

CHOLINE; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; FREE RADICALS; GLYCINE; HUMANS; LYASES; METHYLAMINES;

EID: 84871822906     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219534110     Document Type: Note

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