One-Carbon Metabolism in Health and Disease

Cell Metabolism

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 27-42

  Ducker, Gregory S ^a   Rabinowitz, Joshua D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer metabolism; folate; mitochondria; MTHFD2; neural tube defects; one carbon metabolism; serine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHOLINE; FOLATE TRANSPORTER; FOLIC ACID; GLYCINE; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SERINE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; CARBON;

ADULT DISEASE; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER THERAPY; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLISM; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOSOL; FOLATE METABOLISM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; ISOTOPE TRACING; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; REVIEW; VITAMIN INTAKE; ANIMAL; DISEASES; HEALTH; METABOLISM; NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALS; CARBON; DISEASE; HEALTH; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MITOCHONDRIA; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84994772445     PISSN: 15504131     EISSN: 19327420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2016.08.009     Document Type: Review

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