Carnitine-dependent metabolic activities in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Three carnitine acetyltransferases are essential in a carnitine-dependent strain

Yeast

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 585-595

  Swiegers, Jan H ^a   Dippenaar, Nola ^a   Pretorius, Isak S ^b   Bauer, Florian F ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acetyl CoA; Carnitine acetyltransferases; Citrate synthetase; Glyoxylate cycle; Mutant selection; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; ACETYLCARNITINE; CARBON; CARNITINE; CARNITINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; FERMENTATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PEROXISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CARNITINE; CARNITINE ACYLTRANSFERASES; CARNITINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; ETHANOL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EUKARYOTA; FELIS CATUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034985293     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.712     Document Type: Article

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