Acetyl-CoA carboxylase 1
BE0000626ProteinHumansACACA
Cytosolic enzyme that catalyzes the carboxylation of acetyl-CoA to malonyl-CoA, the first and rate-limiting step of de novo fatty acid biosynthesis (PubMed:20457939, PubMed:20952656, PubMed:29899443). It is acted on by 5 drugs in DrugBank.
- Gene name
- ACACA
- UniProtKB entry
- Q13085Swiss-Prot
- Cellular location
- Cytoplasm, cytosol
- Residues / weight
- 2,346 residues · 265,552 Da
- Also known as
- 6.4.1.2 · ACAC · ACC-alpha · ACC1 · ACCA
Resolves to
Pharmacology
Drugs
What you can answer from here — as of September 07, 2019
Which approved drugs act on Acetyl-CoA carboxylase 1, how selective are they, and which programs against it are still in active trials?
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