One‐carbon metabolism and microbial pathogenicity

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One-carbon metabolism (OCM) pathways are responsible for several functions, producing a number of one-carbon unit intermediates (formyl, methylene, methenyl, methyl) that are required for the synthesis of various amino acids and other biomolecules such as purines, thymidylate, redox regulators, and, in most microbes, folate. As humans must acquire folate from the diet, folate production is a target for...

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