A novel cold-sensitive allele of the rate-limiting enzyme of fatty acid synthesis, acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase, affects the morphology of the yeast vacuole through acylation of Vac8p

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2984-2995

  Schneiter, Roger ^a   Guerra, Cesar E ^c,d   Lampl, Manfred ^a   Tatzer, Verena ^a   Zellnig, Günther ^b   Klein, Hannah L ^c   Kohlwein, Sepp D ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; CELL PROTEIN;

ACYLATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME REGULATION; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; YEAST;

ACETYL-COA CARBOXYLASE; ACYLATION; ALLELES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COLD; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS; MYRISTIC ACIDS; PALMITIC ACIDS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; VACUOLES;

ARMADILLO; FUNGI;

EID: 0034005054     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.9.2984-2995.2000     Document Type: Article

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