ENTRY       map00053                    Pathway
NAME        Ascorbate and aldarate metabolism
CLASS       Metabolism; Carbohydrate metabolism
PATHWAY_MAP map00053  Ascorbate and aldarate metabolism
MODULE      M00114  Ascorbate biosynthesis, plants, fructose-6P => ascorbate [PATH:map00053]
            M00129  Ascorbate biosynthesis, animals, glucose-1P => ascorbate [PATH:map00053]
            M00550  Ascorbate degradation, ascorbate => D-xylulose-5P [PATH:map00053]
DBLINKS     GO: 0019852 0019572
REFERENCE   PMID:17222174
  AUTHORS   Linster CL, Van Schaftingen E
  TITLE     Vitamin C. Biosynthesis, recycling and degradation in mammals.
  JOURNAL   FEBS J 274:1-22 (2007)
            DOI:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05607.x
REFERENCE   PMID:15564123
  AUTHORS   Valpuesta V, Botella MA.
  TITLE     Biosynthesis of L-ascorbic acid in plants: new pathways for an old antioxidant.
  JOURNAL   Trends Plant Sci 9:573-7 (2004)
            DOI:10.1016/j.tplants.2004.10.002
REFERENCE   PMID:10517845
  AUTHORS   Davey MW, Gilot C, Persiau G, Ostergaard J, Han Y, Bauw GC, Van Montagu MC.
  TITLE     Ascorbate biosynthesis in Arabidopsis cell suspension culture.
  JOURNAL   Plant Physiol 121:535-43 (1999)
            DOI:10.1104/pp.121.2.535
REFERENCE   PMID:16595667
  AUTHORS   Conklin PL, Gatzek S, Wheeler GL, Dowdle J, Raymond MJ, Rolinski S, Isupov M, Littlechild JA, Smirnoff N.
  TITLE     Arabidopsis thaliana VTC4 encodes L-galactose-1-P phosphatase, a plant ascorbic acid biosynthetic enzyme.
  JOURNAL   J Biol Chem 281:15662-70 (2006)
            DOI:10.1074/jbc.M601409200
REFERENCE   PMID:17462988
  AUTHORS   Linster CL, Gomez TA, Christensen KC, Adler LN, Young BD, Brenner C, Clarke SG.
  TITLE     Arabidopsis VTC2 Encodes a GDP-L-Galactose Phosphorylase, the Last Unknown Enzyme in the Smirnoff-Wheeler Pathway to Ascorbic Acid in Plants.
  JOURNAL   J Biol Chem 282:18879-85 (2007)
            DOI:10.1074/jbc.M702094200
REFERENCE   PMID:14996803
  AUTHORS   Campos E, Baldoma L, Aguilar J, Badia J.
  TITLE     Regulation of expression of the divergent ulaG and ulaABCDEF operons involved in LaAscorbate dissimilation in Escherichia coli.
  JOURNAL   J Bacteriol 186:1720-8 (2004)
            DOI:10.1128/JB.186.6.1720-1728.2004
REFERENCE   PMID:12644495
  AUTHORS   Zhang Z, Aboulwafa M, Smith MH, Saier MH Jr.
  TITLE     The ascorbate transporter of Escherichia coli.
  JOURNAL   J Bacteriol 185:2243-50 (2003)
            DOI:10.1128/JB.185.7.2243-2250.2003
REL_PATHWAY map00020  Citrate cycle (TCA cycle)
            map00040  Pentose and glucuronate interconversions
            map00051  Fructose and mannose metabolism
            map00520  Amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism
            map00630  Glyoxylate and dicarboxylate metabolism
KO_PATHWAY  ko00053
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