The Pathway Ontology (PW), is currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about this vocabulary, please see Petri et al. The rat genome database pathway portal. Database (Oxford). 2011 Apr 8;2011:bar010. Print 2011 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).
Those metabolic reactions involved in the synthesis of carnitine. It involves the amino acids lysine and methionine and it largely occurs in the kidney and liver.
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Carnitine synthesis; carnitine biosynthetic process