The way you're wired, metabolically. [View all]

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When I was a kid, I had a nice wall chart with metabolic pathways that I kept in my bedroom.

I moved, and I "loaned" it to a friend for "safe keeping" (he generously volunteered to do "hold it" ) until I settled in to my new digs across the country. I never saw the wall chart (or the friend) again. This was the 1970s. I'm sure it would be relatively primitive now.

This was before the internet, of course, and now one can find any metabolic pathway one wishes (or pretty much any, at least of those published if not necessarily curated) at the KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) which is not purely a list of genes, but is a rather detailed description of "normal" metabolism, catabolism, biosynthesis, etc.

There's an interesting single chart on your (as in everyone's) biochemical wiring, sort of an awesome thing at which to look, maybe even starte.

Here's what you are, you, you, you, human being, you:

Kegg Metabolic pathways - Homo sapiens (human)

It's interactive and shows how all the molecules in you, you human being, interact.