Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

The dynamic organization of fungal acetyl-CoA carboxylase

  • Moritz Hunkeler,
  • Edward Stuttfeld,
  • Anna Hagmann,
  • Stefan Imseng,
  • Timm Maier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11196
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Acetyl-CoA carboxylases are central regulatory hubs of fatty acid metabolism and are important targets for drug development in obesity and cancer. Here, the authors demonstrate that the regulation of these highly dynamic enzymes in fungi is governed by a mechanism based on phosphorylation-dependent conformational variability.