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Nature Chemical Biology 3, 454 - 455 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0807-454

At the crossroad of thiamine degradation and biosynthesis

Lucien Bettendorff1

  1. Lucien Bettendorff is at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, University of Liège, Building B36, 1, avenue de l'Hôpital, B-4000 Liège, Belgium. e-mail: l.bettendorff@ulg.ac.be


The physiological significance of thiaminase II has escaped our understanding for many years. The recent discovery of a new thiamine salvage pathway shows that this enzyme is involved in the regeneration of precursors for thiamine biosynthesis.

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