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. 2009 Apr;139(4):784–791. doi: 10.3945/jn.109.104265

TABLE 2.

Effect of reducing the Vmax of cSHMT and mSHMT on various steady-state reaction velocities and metabolite concentrations

Reaction velocities
Concentrations
Relative Vmax TS MTHFR GDC 5mTHF CH2-THF SAM cGly1 cSer2
cSHMT only % Change from normal
    1 (normal) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    0.5 −1 0 0 0 −2 −1 −1 0
    0.1 −2 −1 1 −1 −4 −2 −1 0
    0 −3 −1 1 −1 −4 −2 −2 0
mSHMT only
    0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
cSHMT + mSHMT
    0.5 −1 0 0 0 −2 −1 0 0
    0.1 −3 −1 1 −1 −4 −2 −2 0
    0 −4 −1 2 −2 −4 −3 −3 1
1

Cytoplasmic glycine concentration.

2

Cytoplasmic serine concentration.