Acetylphosphate: a novel link between lysine acetylation and intermediary metabolism in bacteria

Eric Verdin; Melanie Ott

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2013.07.006

Acetylphosphate: a novel link between lysine acetylation and intermediary metabolism in bacteria

Mol Cell. 2013 Jul 25;51(2):132-4. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.07.006.

Authors

Eric Verdin¹, Melanie Ott

Affiliation

¹ Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. everdin@gladstone.ucsf.edu

PMID: 23870140
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.07.006

Abstract

In this issue of Molecular Cell, Weinert et al. (2013) demonstrate that the intermediary metabolite acetyl-phosphate is an important acetyl donor that contributes to global protein acetylation in growth-arrested E. coli.

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MeSH terms

Acetates / metabolism*
Cell Proliferation*
Escherichia coli / metabolism*
Lysine / chemistry*
Organophosphates / metabolism*

Substances

Acetates
Organophosphates
acetyl phosphate
Lysine