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“It was interesting that oral administration of folic acid , which itself has no biopterin effect, reduced serum phenylalanine and increased serum tyrosine and serum serotonin.”
Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease • 2005 | View Paper
“Rienits (13) found that folic acid stimulated the metabolism of tyrosine with liver homogenates prepared from scorbutic guinea pigs.”
“Several observations in Go have suggested that folic acid may have a role in the oxidation of tyrosine , although no specific function of the vitamin in the metabolism of this ammo acid has been established.”
The Journal of biological chemistry • 1962 | View Paper
“The results of these studies indicated that folic acid associates with phenylalanine and tyrosine with binding constants ranging from 1.46 × 104 to 2.66 × 104 M−1.”
“ Folic acid , a competitive inhibitor, protected against modification of the tyrosines and the associated activity losses; however, the oxidation of the single sulfhydryl group and the initial 20 to 30% activity loss were unaffected.”