Division of labour: How does folate metabolism partition between one-carbon metabolism and amino acid oxidation?

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 472, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 135-146

  Brosnan, Margaret E ^a   MacMillan, Luke ^a   Stevens, Jennifer R ^a   Brosnan, John T ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Folate; Formate; Glycine metabolism; NADPH; S adenosylmethionine; Serine neogenesis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FORMIC ACID; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SERINE; TRYPTOPHAN; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ALDH1L1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; FOLIC ACID; ISOENZYME; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CARBON METABOLISM; FOLATE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOSOL; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CYTOSOL; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SERINE;

EID: 84955456527     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20150837     Document Type: Article

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