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Homocysteine Thiolactone Detoxifying Enzymes and Alzheimer’s Disease
2024-06-05
Abstract excerpt
Elevated levels of homocysteine (Hcy) and related metabolites are associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Severe hyperhomocysteinemia causes neurological deficits and worsens behavioral and biochemical traits associated with AD. Although Hcy is precluded from entering the Genetic Code by proofreading mechanisms of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and thus is a non-protein amino acid, it can be attached to prote...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9d09f76d-625c-5f63-828e-80a8e30fa9a9
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202406.0219.v1
