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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2022🎓 HS🔄 Round 2#️⃣ Question 5🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Researchers in the Yilmaz Lab at MIT have discovered that blocking enzymes in a tryptophan biosynthetic pathway caused preferential death of certain colon cancer cells. What vitamin can be produced from a tryptophan biosynthetic pathway, whereby the indole moiety is converted to a pyridine moiety?

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