Friday, January 9, 2009

New Thiamine-Dependent Enzyme, Apparently

There are a lot of article on the supposed thiamine-diphosphate-dependence of this enzyme, 2-hydroxyphytanoyl-CoA lyase, a peroxisomal enzyme involved in alpha-oxidation (thiamine diphosphate is thiamine pyrophosphate):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16786225 (Sniekers et al., 2006)

I'm not going to read it now, but there are lots of articles on it. That's interesting to see.

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