Metabolism of 5-Methyltetrahydrofolate by Lactobacittus casei
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- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of General Microbiology
- Vol. 103 (2) , 249-259
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-103-2-249
Abstract
The metabolism of 5-[Me-14C]methyltetrahydrofolate in Lactobacillus casei proceeded oxidatively with incorporation of label into purine and thymidylate derivatives. No labelled methionine was formed. (l)-5-MethyltetrahydrofoIate, the natural isomer, was not a substrate for the L. casei folylpoly-γ-glutamate synthetase although the unnatural (d)-isomer was slowly metabolized to the diglutamate form.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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