03 Pyrimidine
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Synthesis
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- create monophosphate version
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- II: found in cytosol, rate limiting, inhibited by UMP
- I: in mito, for urea cycle
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- bifunction: catalyzes 2 steps
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- hypersegmented neutrophils
- letter U: orotic acid in Urine, Ump synthase, Uridine treatment
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Thymidine
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- adding methyl group to create thymidine
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- folate to THF, add carbon to dUMP
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- humans don't rely on PABA to make folate
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- deficient in B12: all folate trapped in N5 methyl THF
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- deficient in either folate or B12 leads to high homocysteine level
- MMA: fatty acid conversion
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