When phytanic acid uniformly labeled with 14 C is fed to a mouse, radioactivity can be detected
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When phytanic acid uniformly labeled with 14C is fed to a mouse, radioactivity can be detected in malate, a citric acid cycle intermediate, within minutes. Draw a metabolic pathway that could account for this. Which of the carbon atoms in malate would contain 14C label?
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Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes
ISBN: 978-0471720638
3rd Edition
Authors: Richard M. Felder, Ronald W. Rousseau
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