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Acetyl-CoA carboxylase is recognised generally as being a key enzyme in acyl lipid formation. In plants it has been shown to be important as a regulatory enzyme in light-driven lipid synthesis [1] and has a high flux control coefficient under such conditions [2]. Recently, characterisation of different isoforms of acetyl-CoA carboxylase from plants has been made. In Poaceae such as maize there are two multifunctional proteins [3]. By contrast, the dicotyledon pea contains a multienzyme complex form of acetyl-CoA carboxylase in the mesophyll chloroplasts but a multifunctional protein isoform in the cytosol of epidermal cells [4].
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Price, L.J. et al. (1997). Enzyme Studies on Isoforms of Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase. In: Williams, J.P., Khan, M.U., Lem, N.W. (eds) Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant Lipids. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2662-7_5
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