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  • Title: Possible involvement of acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase as well as fatty acid synthetase in the temperature-controlled synthesis of fatty acids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
    Author: Hori T, Nakamura N, Okuyama H.
    Journal: J Biochem; 1987 Apr; 101(4):949-56. PubMed ID: 2886496.
    Abstract:
    Fatty acid synthetase (FAS) preparations from Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells grown at either 35 or 10 degrees C produced the same products at different temperatures and showed quite similar temperature-dependencies in Arrhenius plots, with break points at 25 degrees C. This break point does not appear to reflect a phase transition of phospholipids present in the purified FAS preparations but rather is associated with protein conformational changes. S. cerevisiae cells grown at 35 degrees C and then shifted to 10 degrees C produced fatty acids with a shorter average chain length than those fatty acids synthesized at 10 degrees C by cells already adapted to 10 degrees C (hyper response). Acetyl-CoA carboxylase activity was relatively higher in the cells grown at 35 degrees C than in the cells grown at 10 degrees C; moreover, fatty acids with longer average chain lengths were synthesized in vitro at higher malonyl-CoA concentrations, which was consistent with the difference in the average chain lengths of newly synthesized fatty acids in cells grown at 35 and 10 degrees C. However, the activity levels of acetyl-CoA carboxylase and fatty acid synthetase alone did not account for the hyper response phenomena.
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