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Interesting. I would like to point out, though, that The pathway for L-ascorbate (Vitamin C) synthesis is not trivial http://www.genome.jp/kegg-bin/show_pathway
by leoh 15y ago
Interesting. I would like to point out, though, that The pathway for L-ascorbate (Vitamin C) synthesis is not trivial http://www.genome.jp/kegg-bin/show_pathway?map00053 http://www.genome.jp/kegg-bin/show_pathway?map00053, but in first world countries, ingesting sufficient amounts of the vitamin is trivial.
- jbri 15y agoWhat's interesting is that the human body still does most of the synthesis - it's only the enzymes for the last step that have been disabled.