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Interaction between vitamin B6 metabolism, nitrogen metabolism and autoimmunity.
Plant signaling & behavior - 1 Jan 2016
Colinas Maite, Fitzpatrick Teresa B
Abstract excerpt
The essential micronutrient vitamin B6 is best known in its enzymatic cofactor form, pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP). However, vitamin B6 comprises the amine pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate (PMP) and the alcohol pyridoxine 5'-phosphate (PNP) in addition to PLP, as well as their corresponding non-phosphorylated forms. The different B6 forms (called vitamers) are enzymatically interconverted in a ubiquitous salvage pathway....
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