The metabolic burden of methyl donor deficiency with focus on the betaine homocysteine methyltransferase pathway

Nutrients

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3481-3495

  Obeid, Rima ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Betaine; Choline; Energy; Folate; Lipids; Methyl

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); BETAINE; BETAINE HOMOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINE; CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; METHIONINE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BODY MASS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID METABOLISM; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OSMOTIC STRESS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BETAINE; BETAINE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; FASTING; FATTY LIVER; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; LIVER; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METHIONINE; MUSCULAR DISEASES; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

EID: 84884175034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu5093481     Document Type: Review

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