How does Methylglyoxal imports in the cells? Is there any importer known?

19 March 2019 0 2K Report

Being a toxic metabolite, MG is detoxified in the cell. However, certain studies show that they have treated cells (yeast) with mM amounts of MG. So how is it getting inside the cell?

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