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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Lipid Res. 2016 Apr 9;63:28–40. doi: 10.1016/j.plipres.2016.03.005

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

The metabolic roles of choline. Choline (left box) can be oxidized to betaine, acetylated to acetylcholine, or phosphorylated to PC (right box). PC can be acetylated and serve as the head-group in many glycerophospholipids (e.g. PAF, PtdCho) or sphingolipids (e.g. sphingomyelin). The fate of choline and PC varies depending of tissue type and cell status.