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JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 14, Issue 10, Pages 568-575Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-2863(03)00115-3
Keywords
folate deficiency; mismatch repair; apoptosis; genomic instability; megaloblastic anemia; cancer
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The vitamin that is most commonly deficient in the American diet is folate. Severe folate deficiency in humans is known to cause megaloblastic anemia and developmental defects, and is associated with an increased incidence of several forms of human cancer. Although the exact mechanisms by which this vitamin deficiency may cause these diseases are not known at the present time, recent work has shown that folate deficiency also causes genomic instability and programmed cell death (or apoptosis). Additionally, it is known that the DNA mismatch repair pathway mediates folate deficiency-induced apoptosis. This review will first describe work suggesting that folate deficiency causes genomic instability and apoptosis, then discuss possible mechanisms by which the mismatch repair pathway could-trigger folate deficiency-induced apoptosis, which has either protective or destructive effects on tissue. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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