Modulation of plant acetyl-CoA synthetase activity by post-translational lysine acetylation.

Acetyl-CoA synthetase (ACS) is one of several enzymes that generate the key metabolic intermediate, acetyl-CoA. In microbes and mammals ACS activity is regulated by the post-translational acetylation of a key lysine residue. ACS in plant cells is part of a two-enzyme system that maintains acetate homeostasis, but its post-translational regulation is unknown.

The Effects of Carbon Source and Growth Temperature on the Fatty Acid Profiles of .

The aerobic, thermophilic , has been proposed as an organism to be used for the efficient conversion of plant biomass to fatty acid-derived precursors of biofuels or biorenewable chemicals. Despite the potential of to catabolize plant biomass, there is remarkably little data available concerning the natural ability of this organism to produce fatty acids. Therefore, we determined the fatty acids that produces when it is grown on different carbon sources (i.