Subunit structure of the mammalian fatty acid synthetase: further evidence for a homodimer. |
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Authors: | S Smith A Stern |
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Affiliation: | Bruce Lyon Memorial Research Laboratory, Children''s Hospital Medical Center, 51st and Grove Streets, Oakland, California 94609 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Immunochemical procedures and limited proteolysis have been used to investigate the subunit structure of fatty acid synthetase from rat mammary gland. Specific antibodies were raised against the two thioesterase I domains obtained from the fatty acid synthetase by treatment with trypsin. The antibodies precipitated both subunits of the dissociated fatty acid synthetase, indicating that both subunits contained a single thioesterase I domain. An analysis of the time course of limited trypsinization of the fatty acid synthetase, labeled in its two thioesterase I domains with [1,3-14C] diisopropylphosphofluoridate, indicated that each subunit was susceptible to tryptic attack at identical locations and that the thioesterase I domains occupied a terminal locus at one end of each polyfunctional polypeptide chain. The most plausible explanation for these results is that the mammalian fatty acid synthetase is a homodimer. |
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