Requirements for Carnitine Shuttle-Mediated Translocation of Mitochondrial Acetyl Moieties to the Yeast Cytosol
In many eukaryotes, the carnitine shuttle plays a key role in intracellular transport of acyl moieties. Fatty acid-grown Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells employ this shuttle to translocate acetyl units into their mitochondria. Mechanistically, the carnitine shuttle should be reversible, but previous s...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2016-05-01
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Series: | mBio |
Online Access: | http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/3/e00520-16 |