Where does Nε-trimethyllysine for the carnitine biosynthesis in mammals come from?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Servillo, Luigi ^a   Giovane, Alfonso ^a   Cautela, Domenico ^b   Castaldo, Domenico ^c   Balestrieri, Maria Luisa ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b Stazione Sperimentale per le Industrie delle Essenze e dei Derivati Agrumari   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; CARNITINE; EPSILON TRIMETHYLLYSINE; N(G) METHYLARGININE; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALFALFA; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FLOUR; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FRUIT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LEAFY VEGETABLE; LEGUME; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; POACEAE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOLANACEAE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URTICA DIOICA;

ANIMALS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CARNITINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, REVERSE-PHASE; FLUORESCENCE; LYSINE; MAMMALS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84897996285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084589     Document Type: Article

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