Characterization of acetyl-CoA:l-lysine
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Rüdiger Bode; Anja-Maria Thurau; Heike Schmidt
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Article
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1993
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Springer
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English
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The carbon catabolism of L-lysine starts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae with acetylation by an acetyl-CoA:L-lysine N6-acetyltransferase. The enzyme is strongly induced in cells grown on L-lysine as sole carbon source and has been purified about 530-fold. Its activity was specific for acetyl-CoA and, in