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SUBMITTER: Chen NH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4776306 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Nathan H NH Djoko Karrera Y KY Veyrier Frédéric J FJ McEwan Alastair G AG
Frontiers in microbiology 20160303
Formaldehyde is the simplest of all aldehydes and is highly cytotoxic. Its use and associated dangers from environmental exposure have been well documented. Detoxification systems for formaldehyde are found throughout the biological world and they are especially important in methylotrophic bacteria, which generate this compound as part of their metabolism of methanol. Formaldehyde metabolizing systems can be divided into those dependent upon pterin cofactors, sugar phosphates and those dependent ...[more]