The Scientist : More roles for vitamin C [2/5/2002]

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020502-02

2 May 2002

Vitamin C mediates a number of physiologically important enzymatic reactions but the precise molecular mechanisms employed remain incompletely understood. In May Nature Medicine, Sotiria Sotiriou and colleagues from National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, USA, show that the ascorbic-acid transporter Slc23a1 is essential for vitamin C transport into the brain and for perinatal survival (Nature Med 2002, 8:514-517).

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