scholarly journals Fatty acid synthetase system in the regulation of membrane lipid synthesis in Escherichia coli after shifts in temperature.

1982 ◽  
Vol 257 (9) ◽  
pp. 4812-4817
Author(s):  
H Okuyama ◽  
M Saitoh ◽  
R Hiramatsu
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Synthetase ◽  
Lipid Synthesis ◽  
Membrane Lipid

scholarly journals Modulation of lipid-synthesizing enzymes by insulin in differentiated ob17 adipose-like cells

1983 ◽  
Vol 214 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Grimaldi ◽  
C Forest ◽  
P Poli ◽  
R Negrel ◽  
G Ailhaud
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Synthesis ◽  
Specific Activity ◽  
Fatty Acid Synthetase ◽  
Lipid Synthesis ◽  
Acid Synthesis ◽  
Acetate Incorporation ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Response Curves ◽  
Glycerol 3 Phosphate Dehydrogenase

ob17 cells convert into adipose-like cells when maintained in the presence of physiological concentrations of insulin and tri-iodothyronine. After this conversion, insulin removal from differentiated ob17 cells gives within 24-48 h a large decrease in fatty acid synthetase, glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase and acid:CoA ligase activities, as well as in the rate of fatty acid synthesis determined by [14C]acetate incorporation into lipids. All parameters are restored by insulin addition to initial values within 24-48 h. Dose-response curves of insulin on the restoration of glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity and of fatty acid synthesis give half-maximally effective concentrations close to 1 nM, in agreement with the affinity for insulin of the insulin receptors previously characterized in these cells. Immunotitration experiments indicate that the changes in the specific activity of fatty acid synthetase are due to parallel changes in the cellular enzyme content. Therefore the ob17 cell line should be a useful model to study the long-term effects of insulin on the modulation of lipid synthesis in adipose cells.

scholarly journals Gene-Specific Random Mutagenesis of Escherichia coli In Vivo: Isolation of Temperature-Sensitive Mutations in the Acyl Carrier Protein of Fatty Acid Synthesis

2006 ◽  
Vol 188 (1) ◽  
pp. 287-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas R. De Lay ◽  
John E. Cronan
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Fatty Acid Synthesis ◽  
Acyl Carrier Protein ◽  
Lipid Synthesis ◽  
Acid Synthesis ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Carrier Protein ◽  
Nonpermissive Temperature ◽  
Overlap Extension

ABSTRACT Acyl carrier proteins (ACPs) are very small acidic proteins that play a key role in fatty acid and complex lipid synthesis. Moreover, recent data indicate that the acyl carrier protein of Escherichia coli has a large protein interaction network that extends beyond lipid synthesis. Despite extensive efforts over many years, no temperature-sensitive mutants with mutations in the structural gene (acpP) that encodes ACP have been isolated. We report the isolation of three such mutants by a new approach that utilizes error-prone PCR mutagenesis, overlap extension PCR, and phage λ Red-mediated homologous recombination and that should be generally applicable. These mutants plus other experiments demonstrate that ACP function is essential for the growth of E. coli. Each of the mutants was efficiently modified with the phosphopantetheinyl moiety essential for the function of ACP in lipid synthesis, and thus lack of function at the nonpermissive temperature cannot be attributed to a lack of prosthetic group attachment. All of the mutant proteins were largely stable at the nonpermissive temperature except the A68T/N73D mutant protein. Fatty acid synthesis in strains that carried the D38V or A68T/N73D mutations was inhibited upon a shift to the nonpermissive temperature and in the latter case declined to a small percentage of the rate of the wild-type strain.

scholarly journals ISOLATION AND GENETIC ANALYSIS OF CAULOBACTER MUTANTS DEFECTIVE IN CELL SHAPE AND MEMBRANE LIPID SYNTHESIS

Genetics ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 809-826
Author(s):  
David A Hodgson ◽  
Penny Shaw ◽  
Lucille Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Genetic Analysis ◽  
Cell Shape ◽  
Lipid Synthesis ◽  
Membrane Lipid ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Complex Media ◽  
Orange Pigment ◽  
Substantial Distance

ABSTRACT In this paper we report the isolation, characterization and genetic analysis of several C. crescentus mutants altered in membrane lipid synthesis. One of these, a fatty acid bradytroph, AE6002, was shown to be due to a mutation in the fatA gene. In addition to the presence of the fatA506 mutation, this strain was found to contain two other mutations, one of which caused the production of a water-soluble brown-orange pigment (pigA) and another which caused formation of helical cells (hclA). Expression of the latter two phenotypes required complex media and both were repressed by glucose. However, the lesions were mapped to loci that are separated by a substantial distance. The hclA and the fatA genes mapped close together, possibly implying that comutation had occurred in AE6002. Data are presented that allow the unambiguous identification of a second Fat gene (fatB) in C. crescentus. The map position of another mutation in membrane lipid biogenesis, the glycerol-3-PO4 auxotroph gpsA505, was also determined. During this study the flaZ gene was fine-mapped and the positions of proC and rif changed from the previously reported location.

scholarly journals Fatty Acid Synthetase and β-Hydroxydecanoyl Coenzyme A Dehydrase from Escherichia coli

1964 ◽  
Vol 239 (11) ◽  
pp. 3653-3662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne T. Norris ◽  
S. Matsumura ◽  
Konrad Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Coenzyme A ◽  
Fatty Acid Synthetase
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