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Indoleamine dioxygenase is a rate-limiting step of tryptophan catabolism, and other steps are not known to be induced by IFN-γ.
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) belong to a group of nuclear receptors that include steroid, retinoid, thyroid hormone receptors and others [ 21 22 23 ] . There are three types of PPARs: PPARα is expressed predominantly in the liver, heart, kidney, brown adipose and stomach mucosa, and is important for lipid catabolism.
Duplication of genes belonging to these functional groups is thought to be adaptive because increase in the production of the corresponding proteins may either increase the efficiency of transport of a nutrient into the cell or of toxins out of the cell, increase the rate of catabolism of toxic substances, or allow a greater rate of synthesis of metabolites, for example amino acids, that are required in increased amounts under the given conditions [ 32, 33, 34, 46, 48, 51].
[It] probably increased the catabolism of thyroid hormones by enzymatic induction.
It is possible, however, that gamma-tocopherol may protect alpha-tocopherol from catabolism (or in vitro oxidation) into products other than quinones.