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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos (FZEA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Caroline Comanini Augusto in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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The arginase enzyme is the first enzyme in the polyamine synthesis pathway in Leishmania. It converts L-arginine into L-ornithine and urea. The ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) produces putrescine by L-ornithine decarboxylation. The putrescine is used as a substrate in the polyamines biosynthesis such as spermidine and spermine. Spermidine is a substrate of the trypanothione synthase that co…
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