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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: Mitochondrion. 2006 Nov 29;7(3):204–210. doi: 10.1016/j.mito.2006.11.001

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The urea cycle. Carbamyl phosphate synthetase I is the rate limiting step in the urea cycle. The CPSI T1405N polymorphism is located in the N-acetylglutamate cofactor binding site. Note that arginine formed by the urea cycle serves as the substrate for NO.