Biotin Starvation with Adequate Glucose Provision Causes Paradoxical Changes in Fuel Metabolism Gene Expression Similar in Rat (Rattus norvegicus), Nematode (Caenorhabditis elegans) and Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)

Abstract

The results point toward a strongly selected role of biotin in the control of carbon metabolism, and in adaptations to variable availability of carbon, conceivably mediated by signal transduction including soluble guanylate cyclase, cGMP and a cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) and/or biotin-dependent processes.