title: The fungal acl1 and acl2 genes encode two polypeptides with homology to the N- and C-terminal parts of the animal ATP citrate lyase polypeptide.
abstract: ATP citrate lyase (ACL) catalyzes the formation of cytosolic acetyl-CoA, which is mainly used for the biosynthesis of fatty acids and sterols. In this paper, we show for the first time that in filamentous fungi two different subunits of ACL are encoded by two separate genes. This is in contrast to animals where ACL is encoded by a single gene. Data are presented on acl genes from the filamentous fungi Sordaria macrospora and Gibberella pulicaris. In S. macrospora, both genes, acl1 and acl2, are clustered within a region of 10 kb and are divergently transcribed.
authors.affiliation: Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Molekulare Botanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nowrousian
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kück
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Loser
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Weltring
mesh_terms: D001275:ATP Citrate (pro-S)-Lyase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D005800:Genes, Fungal / Q000235:genetics*; D005874:Gibberella / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D012331:RNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D020037:Sordariales / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D007527:Isoenzymes; D012331:RNA, Fungal; D001275:ATP Citrate (pro-S)-Lyase