Transketolase haploinsufficiency reduces adipose tissue and female fertility in mice.

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Transketolase (TKT) is a ubiquitous enzyme used in multiple metabolic pathways. We show here by gene targeting that TKT-null mouse embryos are not viable and that disruption of one TKT allele can cause growth retardation ( approximately 35%) and preferential reduction of adipose tissue ( approximately 77%). Other TKT(+/-) tissues had moderate ( approximately 33%; liver, gonads) or relatively little (...

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