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Query: EC:6.4.1.2 (acetyl-CoA carboxylase)
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Acetyl-CoA carboxylase [ACCase; acetyl-CoA:carbon dioxide ligase (ADP forming), EC 6.4.1.2] catalyses the ATP-dependent carboxylation of acetyl-CoA to form malonyl-CoA. We have amplified a fragment of the biotin carboxylase (BC) domain of the Ustilago maydis acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC1) gene from genomic DNA and used this amplified DNA fragment as a probe to recover the complete gene from a lambda EMBL3 genomic library. The ACC1 gene has a reading frame of 6555 nucleotides, which is interrupted by a single intron of 80 bp in length. The gene encodes a protein containing 2185 amino acids, with a calculated M(r) of 242,530; this is in good agreement with the size of ACCases from other sources. Further identification was based on the position of putative binding sites for acetyl-CoA, ATP, biotin and carboxybiotin found in other ACCases. A single ACC1 allele was disrupted in a diploid wild-type strain. After sporulation of diploid disruptants, no haploid progeny containing a disrupted acc1 allele were recovered, even though an exogenous source of fatty acids was provided. The data indicate that, in U. maydis, ACCase is required for essential cellular processes other than de novo fatty acid biosynthesis.
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PMID:The ACC1 gene, encoding acetyl-CoA carboxylase, is essential for growth in Ustilago maydis. 750 Sep 41

Soraphen A, a polyketide isolated from the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum, is a potent inhibitor of fungal growth. We have used a genetic approach to localize the target of this drug, employing Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism. we have isolated soraphen A-resistant mutants and found that all of them map at the same genetic locus and exhibit a broad range of semidominant phenotypes. Data from genetic crosses of soraphen A-resistant clones with an acc1 mutant revealed that ACC1, coding for acetyl-CoA carboxylase (E.C. 6.4.1.2), is tightly linked to soraphen A resistance. Partially-purified enzyme extracts containing acetyl-CoA carboxylase were prepared and assayed for their soraphen A sensitivity. Our experiments showed that the catalytic activity of the wild-type enzyme is inhibited in vitro by soraphen A while the mutant enzyme remains catalytically active. Taken together these data strongly suggest that the ACC1 gene product is the primary target for soraphen A in vivo.
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PMID:Identification of the yeast ACC1 gene product (acetyl-CoA carboxylase) as the target of the polyketide fungicide soraphen A. 791 71

We have isolated a 1.2-kilobase pair cDNA fragment in a screening for yeast genes regulated at the level of transcription by soluble lipid precursors, inositol and choline. Sequence analysis and comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence to protein databases unveiled 68% similarity of a 374-amino acid peptide fragment to published C termini of chicken and rat acetyl-CoA carboxylase and almost 100% identity to the product of the FAS3 gene from yeast. Several lines of evidence confirm that the cloned gene represents the yeast structural gene ACC1 encoding acetyl-CoA carboxylase. Overexpression of the ACC1 gene from a high copy number plasmid resulted in overexpression of a 250-kDa biotin-enzyme and enzymatic activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase. Disruption of one ACC1 allele in a diploid wild-type strain resulted in 50% reduction of ACC1-specific mRNA and acetyl-CoA carboxylase specific activity and a marked decrease of biotin associated with a 250-kDa protein, compared to wild-type. After sporulation of diploid disruptants, spores containing the disrupted acc1 allele failed to enter vegetative growth, despite fatty acid supplementation, suggesting that acetyl-CoA carboxylase activity is essential for a process other than de novo fatty acid synthesis and that only a single functional copy of the ACC1 gene exists. ACC1 transcription was repressed 3-fold by lipid precursors, inositol and choline, and was also controlled by regulatory factors Ino2p, Ino4p, and Opi1p, providing evidence that the key step of fatty acid synthesis is regulated in conjunction with phospholipid synthesis at the level of gene expression. The 5'-untranslated region of the ACC1 gene contains a sequence reminiscent of an inositol/choline-responsive element identified in genes encoding phospholipid biosynthetic enzymes.
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PMID:Acetyl-CoA carboxylase from yeast is an essential enzyme and is regulated by factors that control phospholipid metabolism. 809 6

The conditional mRNA transport mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, acc1-7-1 (mtr7-1), displays a unique alteration of the nuclear envelope. Unlike nucleoporin mutants and other RNA transport mutants, the intermembrane space expands, protuberances extend from the inner membrane into the intermembrane space, and vesicles accumulate in the intermembrane space. MTR7 is the same gene as ACC1, encoding acetyl coenzyme A (CoA) carboxylase (Acc1p), the rate-limiting enzyme of de novo fatty acid synthesis. Genetic and biochemical analyses of fatty acid synthesis mutants and acc1-7-1 indicate that the continued synthesis of malonyl-CoA, the enzymatic product of acetyl-CoA carboxylase, is required for an essential pathway which is independent from de novo synthesis of fatty acids. We provide evidence that synthesis of very-long-chain fatty acids (C26 atoms) is inhibited in acc1-7-1, suggesting that very-long-chain fatty acid synthesis is required to maintain a functional nuclear envelope.
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PMID:A yeast acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase mutant links very-long-chain fatty acid synthesis to the structure and function of the nuclear membrane-pore complex. 894 72

Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC1) catalyzes the first and rate limiting step of de novo fatty acid synthesis. Defects in Acc1p were recently correlated with an altered structure/function of the nuclear envelope in yeast. The subcellular distribution of the enzyme was determined in wild-type and mutant cells by cell fractionation and confocal immunofluorescence microscopy. Even though fatty acid synthesis is generally considered to be a cytosolic reaction, we found that Acc1p cofractionated with nuclei and the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) marker BiP/Kar2p. Membrane-bound Acc1p was susceptible to proteinase K digestion and was solubilized by mild salt treatment indicating that it is loosely associated with the cytosolic surface of the nuclear ER membrane. Consistent with these observations, immunofluorescence analysis revealed that Acc1p was distributed in a gradient within the cytoplasm that had its highest concentration around the ER. Possible association of Acc1p with the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) was investigated in strains that display NPC clustering. Results of these experiments suggest that Acc1p localization is independent of NPC distribution. We propose that association of Acc1p with the cytoplasmic surface of the ER membrane is physiologically relevant to "channel" the enzymatic product of Acc1p, malonyl-CoA, to a putative ER-localized fatty acid chain elongase complex.
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PMID:Yeast acetyl-CoA carboxylase is associated with the cytoplasmic surface of the endoplasmic reticulum. 943 37

We isolated and characterized cDNA clones encoding the entire open reading frame (ORF) of a protein consisting of 2456 amino acids with a molecular mass of 276069 Da from rat heart. As the deduced amino acid sequence showed 85% homology with that of human type 2 acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC2), we concluded that the cDNA clones encode rat heart type ACC2. Using the identified cDNA fragments and the reported cDNA fragment of rat type 1 ACC (ACC1), we determined the steady state transcript levels of ACC1 and ACC2 in various rat tissues quantitatively by Northern blot analysis. The transcript level of ACC2 was high in heart, skeletal muscle and brown adipose tissue, which require high energy and mainly metabolize fatty acids, whereas that of ACC1 was high in white adipose tissue, which stores fatty acids.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of cDNA encoding rat heart type acetyl-CoA carboxylase. 965 32

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene BPL1 encodes the enzyme biotin:protein ligase (BPL), which is required for acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) holoenzyme formation. Disruption of one of the two BPL1 alleles present in diploid cells results, upon sporulation, in a 2+:2(0) segregation of cell viability, with none of the two viable spores being BPL1 negative. In contrast to BPL1 deletants, BPL1 base-substitution mutants are potentially viable and may be isolated as long-chain-fatty-acid-requiring auxotrophs. In addition to ACC pyruvate carboxylase and an additional biotin-containing protein of unknown function fail to be biotinylated in BPL1-defective yeast mutants. In this study, one of these mutants, bpl1-C25/17, is shown to contain an amber stop codon at position 151 of the 689-amino-acid BPL sequence. In bpl1-C25/17 cells, de novo fatty acid synthesis is almost absent (< 2% of the wild type), while very-long-chain fatty acid (VLCFA) synthesis and, to some extent, medium-long-chain fatty acid elongation are still active. Hence, endogenous malonyl-CoA synthesis is reduced but not abolished by the translational stop mutation. A low rate of intact-BPL synthesis is accomplished in the mutant by occasional readthrough of the bpl1-C25/17 UAG nonsense triplet by normal yeast tRNA(Gln)(CAG). Correspondingly, ACC biotinylation is severely reduced though not completely absent in the two bpl1 mutants studied in this work. Residual BPL1 expression in bpl1-C25/17 cells is increased to a level allowing wild-type-like growth by transformation with high copy numbers of either the wild-type tRNA(Gln)(CAG) or the mutant bpl1-C25/17 genes. It is concluded that the lethality of BPL1 deletants is due to the lack of malonyl-CoA-dependent VLCFA synthesis and that the viability of distinct ACC-defective point mutants is due to their maintenance of a critical level of malonyl-CoA and, hence, VLCFA production. The residual capacity of malonyl-CoA synthesis, though, is inadequate to allow cytoplasmic bulk de novo fatty acid synthesis, nor does it support mutant growth on 13:0 as the only dietary fatty acid. ACC-defective mutants are respiratory deficient, which is attributed to the failure of mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis. Since lipoic acid levels of ACC1 and BPL1 mutants are essentially normal, an unknown product of mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis appears to be critically reduced in malonyl-CoA-deficient yeast cells.
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PMID:Pleiotropic phenotype of acetyl-CoA-carboxylase-defective yeast cells--viability of a BPL1-amber mutation depending on its readthrough by normal tRNA(Gln)(CAG). 968 62

In a screen for mutants that display synthetic lethal interaction with hpr1Delta, a hyperrecombination mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we have isolated a novel cold-sensitive allele of the acetyl coenzyme A (CoA) carboxylase gene, acc1(cs), encoding the rate-limiting enzyme of fatty acid synthesis. The synthetic lethal phenotype of the acc1(cs) hpr1Delta double mutant was only partially complemented by exogenous fatty acids. hpr1Delta was also synthetically lethal with a previously isolated, temperature-sensitive allele of ACC1, mtr7 (mRNA transport), indicating that the lethality of the acc1(cs) hpr1Delta double mutant was not allele specific. The basis for the interaction between conditional acc1 alleles and hpr1Delta was investigated in more detail. In the hpr1Delta mutant background, acetyl-CoA carboxylase enzyme activity was reduced about 15-fold and steady-state levels of biotinylated Acc1p and ACC1 mRNA were reduced 2-fold. The reduced Acc1p activity in hpr1Delta cells, however, did not result in an altered lipid or fatty acid composition of the mutant membranes but rendered cells hypersensitive to soraphen A, an inhibitor of Acc1p. Similar to mtr7, hpr1Delta and acc1(cs) mutant cells displayed a defect in nuclear export of polyadenylated RNA. Oversized transcripts were detected in hpr1Delta, and rRNA processing was disturbed, but pre-mRNA splicing appeared wild type. Surprisingly, the transport defect of hpr1Delta and acc1(cs) mutant cells was accompanied by an altered ring-shaped structure of the nucleolus. These observations suggest that the basis for the synthetic lethal interaction between hpr1Delta and acc1 may lie in a functional overlap of the two mutations in nuclear poly(A)+ RNA production and export that results in an altered structure of the nucleolus.
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PMID:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae hyperrecombination mutant hpr1Delta is synthetically lethal with two conditional alleles of the acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase gene and causes a defect in nuclear export of polyadenylated RNA. 1020 65

Aryloxyphenoxypropionates, inhibitors of the plastid acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) of grasses, also inhibit Toxoplasma gondii ACC. Clodinafop, the most effective of the herbicides tested, inhibits growth of T. gondii in human fibroblasts by 70% at 10 microM in 2 days and effectively eliminates the parasite in 2-4 days at 10-100 microM. Clodinafop is not toxic to the host cell even at much higher concentrations. Parasite growth inhibition by different herbicides is correlated with their ability to inhibit ACC enzyme activity, suggesting that ACC is a target for these agents. Fragments of genes encoding the biotin carboxylase domain of multidomain ACCs of T. gondii, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium knowlesi, and Cryptosporidium parvum were sequenced. One T. gondii ACC (ACC1) amino acid sequence clusters with P. falciparum ACC, P. knowlesi ACC, and the putative Cyclotella cryptica chloroplast ACC. Another sequence (ACC2) clusters with that of C. parvum ACC, probably the cytosolic form.
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PMID:Growth of Toxoplasma gondii is inhibited by aryloxyphenoxypropionate herbicides targeting acetyl-CoA carboxylase. 1055 30

A series of chimeral genes, consisting of the yeast GAL10 promoter, yeast ACC1 leader, wheat acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase; EC 6.4.1.2) cDNA, and yeast ACC1 3'-tail, was used to complement a yeast ACC1 mutation. These genes encode a full-length plastid enzyme, with and without the putative chloroplast transit peptide, as well as five chimeric cytosolic/plastid proteins. Four of the genes, all containing at least half of the wheat cytosolic ACCase coding region at the 5'-end, complement the yeast mutation. Aryloxyphenoxypropionate and cyclohexanedione herbicides, at concentrations below 10 microM, inhibit the growth of haploid yeast strains that express two of the chimeric ACCases. This inhibition resembles the inhibition of wheat plastid ACCase observed in vitro and in vivo. The differential response to herbicides localizes the sensitivity determinant to the third quarter of the multidomain plastid ACCase. Sequence comparisons of different multidomain and multisubunit ACCases suggest that this region includes part of the carboxyltransferase domain, and therefore that the carboxyltransferase activity of ACCase (second half-reaction) is the target of the inhibitors. The highly sensitive yeast gene-replacement strains described here provide a convenient system to study herbicide interaction with the enzyme and a powerful screening system for new inhibitors.
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PMID:Herbicide sensitivity determinant of wheat plastid acetyl-CoA carboxylase is located in a 400-amino acid fragment of the carboxyltransferase domain. 1058 59


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