Microbial type I fatty acid synthases (FAS): Major players in a network of cellular FAS systems

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 501-517

  Schweizer, Eckhart ^a   Hofmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; ISOENZYME; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; MICROBIAL ENZYME; MICROBIAL TYPE I FATTY ACID SYNTHASE 1; MICROBIAL TYPE I FATTY ACID SYNTHASE 2; MYCOLIC ACID; PROTEIN ABF1; PROTEIN INO2; PROTEIN OPI2; PROTEIN REB1; PROTEIN SIN3; PROTEIN TFIIB; RAP1 PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACYLATION; BAY REGION BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; YEAST;

CORYNEBACTERIUM; FATTY ACID SYNTHETASE COMPLEX; FATTY ACIDS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOLIC ACIDS;

FUNGI; MYCOBACTERIUM;

EID: 4544275674     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.68.3.501-517.2004     Document Type: Review

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