Vitamin Part 1 (Compatibility Mode)
Vitamin Part 1 (Compatibility Mode)
Vitamin Part 1 (Compatibility Mode)
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Vitamin A
Vitamin D
Vitamin E
Vitamin K
Vitamin A - Retinol
Retinol (vitamin A)
Some uses:
Regulating gene transcription (retinoic acid receptors on cell nuclei are part
of a system for regulating transcription of mRNAs for a number of genes).
Vitamin B1 - Thiamine
Thiamine
Some uses:
FAD -
flavin adenine dinucleotide. FMN - Flavin
mononucleotide
nicotinic acid
pantothenic acid
Coenzyme A
We get pantothenic acid in our diet as CoA, which must be broken down
to pantothenic acid to be absorbed in intestine. We then use the
pantothenic acid in making our own CoA.
Vitamin B6 - pyridoxine
N5,N10 methylene-tetrahydrofolate is a
donor of methylene groups.
UV light
spontaneous
liver enzyme
25-hydroxylase calcitriol
Vitamin D3
Vitamin D binds to a “vitamin D binding protein” (VDP) for transport to target
organs.
Calcitriol, from
vitamin D.
Vitamin D production requires UV light (sunlight).
Sometime after humans migrated north out of Africa about 50,000 years
ago, mutations appeared that reduced melanin (pigment) production in
the skin, permitting vitamin D production with less sunlight.
Thousands of
years ago.
phylloquinone