| Literature DB >> 18948193 |
Marc Leibundgut1, Timm Maier, Simon Jenni, Nenad Ban.
Abstract
Eukaryotic fatty acid synthases (FASs) are huge multifunctional enzymes that carry out all enzymatic steps essential for fatty acid biosynthesis. Recent crystallographic studies provide new insights into the architecture of the two distinct eukaryotic FAS systems, the 2.6 MDa heterododecameric fungal and the 540 kDa dimeric animal FAS. In this review, we compare the fundamentally different organization of these two megasynthases and discuss the structural principles of enzyme integration and substrate shuttling in FAS multienzymes.Entities:
Mesh:
Substances:
Year: 2008 PMID: 18948193 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2008.09.008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Struct Biol ISSN: 0959-440X Impact factor: 6.809