Trans-acylase

SF Haydock, JF Aparicio, I Molnar, T Schwecke, LE Khaw, A Konig, AFA Marsden, IS Galloway, J Staunton, PF Leadlay. Divergent sequence motifs correlated with the substrate specificity of (methyl)malonyl-CoA acyl carrier protein trans-acylase domains in modular polyketide synthases. FEBS Lett 374 246-248, 1995. 

Lipid removal may be a critical factor in plaque formation and the location of lecithin-cholesterol trans-acylase in the arterial wall could play an important role since cholesterol is rapidly exchanged" with the blood while cholesterol ester is not. Kuo in an editorial cites the evidence for the theory that a dlsturbemce in carbohydrate metabolism can be responsible for atherosclerosis and should be included as one of the primary risk factors in coronary heart disease. In this regard, Clements and coworkers have shown the presence in aorta of aldose reductase, an enzyme which they feel provides a mechanism for the alteration of arterial metabolism by hyperglycemia. Another approach to molecular interactions was described by Levy and Day who concluded from their results that the low density lipoproteins are uniquely polycationic at the surface and that these ions react with the internal arterial macromolecular polyanions. 

In recent years, the molecular organization of the plant fatty acid synthetases has been examined in extracts from various plant tissues, and in all cases was found to be nonassociated and similar to the prokaryotic type of coli (1,2,3). Many of the individual component enzymes have been partially purified Including malonyl-CoAtacyl carrier protein (ACP) trans-acylase (4), 3-ketoacyl-ACP reductase (5,6), E-hydroxylacy1-ACP dehydrase (6), enoyl ACP reductase (5,6) and acetyl-CoA ACP transacylase (ATA) (1). 

Rev. 42 (2013) 6213-6222. (d) L. Cao, F.v. Rantwijk, R.A. Sheldon, Cross-linked enzyme aggregates a simple and effective method for the immobilization of penicillin acylase, Org. Lett. 2 (2000) 1361-1364. (e) T. Matsuda, K. Nakayama, T. Abe, M. Mukouyama, Stabilization of pyruvate decarboxylase under pressurized carbon dioxide and water biphasic system, Biocatal. Bio-trans. 28 (2010) 167-171. (f)T. Matsuda, R. Marukado, M. Mukouyama, . Harada, K. Nakamura, Asymmetric reduction of ketones by Geotrichum candidum immobilization and application to reactions using supercritical carbon dioxide. Tetrahedron Asymm. 19 (2008) 2272-2275. 

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