We have experimentally simulated the consequences of one such HGT event in the laboratory, studying the effects of transferring a pathway for catabolism of the plant-derived aromatic compound salicyl ...

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Institute of Ecological Science, School of Life ...

valine and leucine; it can be converted to oxaloacetate to initiate the pathway for the synthesis of aspartate, asparagine, methionine, diaminopimelate, lysine, threonine and isoleucine ...

Metabolism refers to the chemical reactions that occur within an organism to sustain life. The reactions are divided into two categories: catabolism (the breakdown of organic matter to produce ...

The neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) was first found to be responsible for transporting antibodies of the immunoglobulin G (IgG) class from the mother to the fetus or neonate as well as for protecting IgG ...

During the peer-review process the editor and reviewers write an eLife assessment that summarises the significance of the findings reported in the article (on a scale ranging from landmark to useful) ...

Key metabolic pathways, such as tryptophan, inositol phosphate, phenylalanine, and histidine metabolism, were notably dysregulated in GDM. The study also found that specific metabolites, like ...

Valine is one of three branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), compounds the body requires to create and maintain proteins, brain chemicals, and hormones. The body can't make its own, so foods that contain ...

Plasma amino acids are required to reveal the diagnostic elevation of the branched chain amino acids, leucine, isoleucine and valine ... maternal support via the placenta to clear certain metabolites ...

Recent advances in basic and clinical science over the last 3 years have dramatically altered our appreciation of the role of diet in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). The marked increase in ...

A biochemical pathway is a series of chemical reactions that occur within a cell, where the product of one reaction becomes the reactant in the next. Each reaction in the pathway is catalysed by a ...