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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Nutr. 2007 Dec;137(12):2647–2652. doi: 10.1093/jn/137.12.2647

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic of carbon flow from infused [13C2]glycine to give singly or doubly labeled serine. This is the basis of differentiating whether labeled serine is generated directly from glycine via SHMT (lower pathway yielding [13C2]serine) or via SHMT using a glycine-derived methyleneTHF (upper pathway yielding [13C1]serine).