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Novel inhibitors of glutamyl-tRNA(Glu) reductase identified through cell-based screening of the heme/chlorophyll biosynthetic pathway.
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics - 15 Dec 1999
Loida P J, Thompson R L, Walker D M, CaJacob C A
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The metabolite 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is an early committed intermediate in the biosynthetic pathway of heme and chlorophyll formation. In plants, 5-aminolevulinic acid is synthesized via a two-step pathway in which glutamyl-tRNA(Glu) is reduced by glutamyl-tRNA(Glu) reductase (GluTR) to glutamate 1-semialdehyde, followed by transformation to 5-aminolevulinic acid catalyzed by glutamate 1-semialdehyde...
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