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Leishmania donovani encodes a functional enzyme involved in vitamin C biosynthesis: arabino-1,4-lactone oxidase

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Plants and most animals can synthesize ascorbate (vitamin C) for their own requirements, but humans have lost this ability during evolution. The last step in the biosynthesis of L-ascorbic acid involves the conversion of an aldonolactone substrate to ascorbate... ...