Valine is a precursor of propionyl-CoA
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1University Rene Descartes, Department of Biochemical Genetics URA, CNRS 1335, Hospital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
|May 1, 1992
Abstract:
For some time the metabolism of valine has been misrepresented by several biochemistry textbooks. This article demonstrates that propionyl-CoA occurs as an intermediate in the valine metabolic pathway before the formation of methylmalonyl CoA.