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Pathway Description

Curcumin Degradation

Providencia stuartii ATCC 25827

Category:

Metabolite Pathway

Sub-Category:

Metabolic

Created: 2025-01-29

Last Updated: 2025-06-13

Curcumin is metabolized by being reduced through a NADPH dependent curcumin reductase resulting in a dihydrocurcumin. This compound is then reduced again through a NADPH-dependent dihydrocurcumin reductase resulting in a tetrahydrocurcumin. It is not know yet how this compound enters E.coli

References

Curcumin Degradation References

This pathway was propagated using PathWhiz - Pon, A. et al. Pathways with PathWhiz (2015) Nucleic Acids Res. 43(Web Server issue): W552–W559.

Propagated from SMP0001910

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	Curcumin
	Dihydrocurcumin
	Hydrogen Ion
	NADP
	NADPH
	Tetrahydrocurcumin

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NAD(P)H quinone oxidoreductase, PIG3 family

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