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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2012 Jan;15(1):64–70. doi: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e32834d1a08

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Examples of the cellular and molecular consequences of arginine deficiency. These examples are taken from the descriptions in the text and are not intended to be exhaustive. Increased superoxide synthesis by NOS isozymes is due to uncoupling of electron transfer when arginine is deficient. GCN2, general control non-derepressible 2; NOS, nitric oxide synthase.