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tyrosine catabolic process

Known as: tyrosine breakdown, tyrosine catabolism, tyrosine degradation 
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of tyrosine, an aromatic amino acid, 2-amino-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propanoic acid. [GOC… 
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Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
Combined Use of Genome-Wide Association Data and Correlation Networks Unravels Key Regulators of Primary Metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana
Plant primary metabolism is a highly coordinated, central, and complex network of biochemical processes regulated at both the… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Production of Pyomelanin, a Second Type of Melanin, via the Tyrosine Degradation Pathway in Aspergillus fumigatus
ABSTRACT Aspergillus fumigatus is the most important airborne fungal pathogen of immunosuppressed humans. A. fumigatus is able to… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Plant glutathione transferases.
Review
2005
Review
2005
Human glutathione transferase zeta.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Maleylacetoacetate Isomerase (MAAI/GSTZ)-Deficient Mice Reveal a Glutathione-Dependent Nonenzymatic Bypass in Tyrosine Catabolism
ABSTRACT In mammals, the catabolic pathway of phenylalanine and tyrosine is found in liver (hepatocytes) and kidney (proximal… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
The structure of a zeta class glutathione S-transferase from Arabidopsis thaliana: characterisation of a GST with novel active-site architecture and a putative role in tyrosine catabolism.
The cis-trans isomerisation of maleylacetoacetate to fumarylacetoacetate is the penultimate step in the tyrosine/phenylalanine… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Characterisation of a zeta class glutathione transferase from Arabidopsis thaliana with a putative role in tyrosine catabolism.
A glutathione transferase (GST) similar to zeta GSTs in animals and fungi has been cloned from Arabidopsis thaliana using RT-PCR… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Inhibition of glutathione S-transferase zeta and tyrosine metabolism by dichloroacetate: a potential unifying mechanism for its altered biotransformation and toxicity.
Dichloroacetate (DCA) inhibits its own metabolism and is converted to glyoxylate by glutathione S-transferase zeta (GSTz). GSTz… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Inhibition of 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase by 2-(2-nitro-4-trifluoromethylbenzoyl)-cyclohexane-1,3-dione and 2-(2-chloro-4-methanesulfonylbenzoyl)-cyclohexane-1,3-dione.
The administration of the compound 2-(2-nitro-4-trifluoromethylbenzoyl)-cyclohexane-1,3-dione (NTBC) to rats (10 mg/kg body wt… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Murine fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (Fah) gene is disrupted by a neonatally lethal albino deletion that defines the hepatocyte-specific developmental regulation 1 (hsdr-1) locus.
Homozygous deletion of the hepatocyte-specific developmental regulation 1 (hsdr-1) locus in mouse chromosome 7 results in… 
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