Open AccessThe Characteristics of Some Components of the Fatty Acid Synthetase System in the Plastids from the Mesocarp of Avocado ( Persea americana ) Fruit
Author(s) -
CAUGHEY Isaac,
KEKWICK Roy G. O.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
european journal of biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1432-1033
pISSN - 0014-2956
DOI - 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1982.tb06568.x
Subject(s) - plastid , enzyme , reductase , biochemistry , persea , acyl carrier protein , euglena gracilis , biology , escherichia coli , fatty acid synthesis , fatty acid , biosynthesis , botany , gene , chloroplast
Preparations of NADH‐specific and NADPH‐specific, 3‐oxoacyl‐[acyl‐carrier‐protein] reductase enzymes (EC 1.1.1.100), enoyl‐[acyl‐carrier‐protein] reductase (EC‐ 1.3.1.9) and [acyl‐carrier‐protein] malonyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.39) have been purified from preparations of avocado mesocarp plastids and characterized. The enzymes are quite similar in molecular and kinetic characteristics to analogous enzymes known in Escherichia coli and Euglena and are clearly components of a type‐II fatty acid synthetase system.