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Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
congenital anomalies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
eISSN - 1741-4520
pISSN - 0914-3505
DOI - 10.1111/cga.12185
Subject(s) - folic acid , pteridine , glutamic acid , glutamate receptor , chemistry , ring (chemistry) , vitamin b , citation , stereochemistry , biochemistry , vitamin , computer science , library science , medicine , amino acid , organic chemistry , enzyme , receptor
Folate is one of the soluble vitamin B groups. Chemical structural features of the folate family include a pteridine ring (red), p ‐aminobenzoic acid (blue), and one or more gamma‐linked glutamic acid residues (yellow). Natural folates found in foods occur mainly in the polyglutamate form, containing from 2 to 10 additional glutamate residues joined to the first glutamate. Upper: folic (pteroyl‐L‐glutamic) acid. Lower: polyglutamyl tetrahydrofolates. See related articles by Watanabe and by Ebara in this issue.