Acetyl Coenzyme A Carboxylase alpha phospho S78, p-Acetyl Coenzyme A Carboxylase alpha phospho S78, ACAC, ACACA, ACACA, ACACA_HUMAN, ACC alpha, ACC, ACC-alpha, ACC1, ACC1, ACCA, acetyl CoA carboxylase 1, acetyl Coenzyme A, Acetyl Coenzyme A, Biotin carboxylase, Acetyl-Coenzyme A Carboxylase alpha.
Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) is a complex multifunctional enzyme system. ACC is a biotin-containing enzyme which catalyzes the carboxylation of acetyl-CoA to malonyl-CoA, the rate-limiting step in fatty acid synthesis. There are two ACC forms, alpha and beta, encoded by two different genes. ACC-alpha is highly enriched in lipogenic tissues. The enzyme is under long term control at the transcriptional and translational levels and under short term regulation by the phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of targeted serine residues and by allosteric transformation by citrate or palmitoyl-CoA. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants divergent in the 5 sequence and encoding distinct isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008].
