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Multiple; L-gulonolactone oxidase (GULO) is a pseudogene in primates

1 reactions · 1 pathways

What it does, reaction by reaction

1 reactions

Uronic Acid Pathway Carbohydrate Metabolism · Cytosol

step 3 Irreversible/directional

UDP-glucuronate -> L-gulonate -> (L-gulonolactone) -> ascorbate

Converts UDP-glucuronate into L-Gulonate

Notes

Humans, other primates and guinea pigs lack functional GULO, so ascorbate is a dietary vitamin rather than a metabolic product.

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What accelerates and inhibits it

Regulation is pathway-specific, so each context is listed separately

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No regulation recorded for this enzyme in the source documents.

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