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SUBMITTER: MacDonald MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2453002 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
MacDonald Michael J MJ Dobrzyn Agnieszka A Ntambi James J Stoker Scott W SW
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics 20071203 2
Pancreatic beta cell mitochondria convert insulin secretagogues into products that support insulin exocytosis. We explored the idea that lipids are some of these products formed from acyl group transfer out of mitochondria to the cytosol, the site of lipid synthesis. There are two isoforms of acetyl-CoA carboxylase, the enzyme that forms malonyl-CoA from which C(2) units for lipid synthesis are formed. We found that ACC1, the isoform seen in lipogenic tissues, is the only isoform present in huma ...[more]