The ability of microbial cultures to produce or consume folate varies considerably, being a straindependent trait and influenced by fermentation conditions
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It has since been studied extensively as a model copper-carrier peptide, and is investigated for its role in skin and extracellular-matrix research, including work on collagen-related gene expression and fibroblast behaviour in cultured models
The clinical extreme of chronic copper overload is Wilson disease, in which impaired biliary copper excretion produces hepatic and neurological injury a natural experiment demonstrating what happens when the copper regulatory system fails
The acetyl moiety prevents the thiol group from oxidizing before absorption, shields the molecule from -GT-mediated hydrolysis in the intestinal lumen, and increases lipophilicity facilitating passive diffusion across intestinal epithelium and cell membranes
