Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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active methyl

a methyl group attached to a quaternary ammonium ion or a tertiary sulfonium ion that can take part in transmethylation reactions, methyl groups in choline and in S-adenosyl-l-methionine, which are thus methyl donors.


 

 

 

 

 

 



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