| ACAO | acyl coenzyme A oxidase |
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| ACP | accessory conduction pathway; acid phosphatase; acyl carrier protein; American College of Pathologis... |
| LACS | long chain acyl-coenzyme A synthetase |
| MADD | Mothers Against Drunk Driving; multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency |
| MCAD | medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase |
| acyl-CoA-diol transacylase | <enzyme> Catalyses stepwise acylation of alkane-2,3-diols to give the diol ester which constitutes the major component of uropygial lipids of ring-necked pheasants Registry number: EC 2.3.1.- Synonym: acyl-coenzyme a-diol transacylase (26 Jun 1999) |
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| acyl-CoA-estradiol-17-beta-acyltransferase | <enzyme> Catalyses the esterification of estradiol with long chain fatty acids at the 17-position Registry number: EC 2.3.1.- Synonym: acylcoenzyme a-estradiol-17-beta-acyltransferase, estradiol 17-acyltransferase (26 Jun 1999) |
| acyl-CoA oxidase | <enzyme> Catalyses stoichiometric conversion of palmitoyl-CoA and o2 into 2-hexadecenoyl-CoA and h2o2; oxidises acyl-CoA's with carbon chain lengths of 4 to 20; most active toward lauroyl-CoA, but not acetyl- or succinyl-CoA Registry number: EC 1.3.3.6 Synonym: fatty acyl CoA oxidase, fatty acyl-coenzyme a oxidase, fatty acid acyl-CoA oxidase, acox, pox1 gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| acyl-CoA sterol acyltransferase | <enzyme> Isolated from saccharomyces cerevisiae; sat1 and sat2 are isoenzymes; genbank u55383 Registry number: EC 2.3.1- Synonym: sat1 gene product, sat2 gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| acyl-CoA synthetase | General term for enzymes that form acyl-CoA, now called ligases, specifically, long-chain fatty acid-CoA ligase. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acyl-CoA triterpene acyltransferase | <enzyme> Catalyses the esterification of triterpenes with a fatty acid; requires either acetyl-CoA, ATP, and fatty acid, or fatty acyl-CoA alone Registry number: EC 2.3.1.- Synonym: actt-acyltransferase (26 Jun 1999) |
| acyl-coenzyme A | RCH2COSCoA or RCH2CO~SCoA;condensation product of a carboxylic acid and coenzyme A, and metabolic intermediate of importance, notably in the oxidation and synthesis of fat. Synonym: acyl-coenzyme A. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acyl dihydroxyacetone phosphate oxidoreductase | <enzyme> Forms acyl-sn-glycerol 3-phosphate; uses NADPH Registry number: EC 1.1.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| acyl glutamic acid amidohydrolase | <enzyme> Specific for long chain acyl groups such as lauroyl, myristoyl and palmitoyl Registry number: EC 3.5.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| acyl-malonyl-ACP synthase | <enzyme> An enzyme condensing malonyl-ACP and acyl-cys-protein to 3-oxoacyl-ACP + cys-protein + CO2, and similar reactions, as steps in fatty acid synthesis; cys-protein is also a part of the fatty acid synthase complex. Synonym: acyl-malonyl-ACP synthase, beta-ketoacyl-ACP synthase. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acyl protein synthetase | <enzyme> Component of the fatty acid reductase complex of luminescent bacteria Registry number: EC 2.3.1.- Synonym: luxe gene product, fatty acyl-protein synthetase (26 Jun 1999) |
| acyl thioester transacylase | <enzyme> Component of the fatty acid synthetase complex; forms acetyl pantetheine from acetyl CoA and pantetheine Registry number: EC 2.3.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| amino acyl-tRNA ligases | <enzyme> Any of the group of ligases that catalyses the ATP-driven formation of a bond between an amino acid and a trna, activating the amino acids as a step in protein synthesis. Individual enzymes are highly specific for one amino acid and for any trna corresponding to that amino acid. Registry number: EC 6.1.1. (12 Dec 1998) |
| beta-hydroxyacyl-(acyl-carrier-protein)dehydrase | <enzyme> In fatty acid synthesis; specific for acyl carrier protein; cannot use acyl CoA; see also faba gene product Registry number: EC 4.2.1.- Synonym: beta-ohacyl-acp dehydrase, beta-hydroxyacyl-acyl carrier protein dehydratase, fabz gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| branched chain acyl-CoA oxidase | <enzyme> Enzyme from human liver peroxisomes acts on both 2-methyl branched fatty acyl- and bile acid-CoA intermediates, unlike rat liver peroxisomes which have separate enzymes for branched chain fatty acids (pristanoyl-CoA) and bile acid-CoA; involved in beta-oxidation of fatty acids and bil Registry number: EC 1.3.3.- Synonym: 2-methyl-branched chain acyl-CoA oxidase, hbrcacox (26 Jun 1999) |