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α-Methyl Acyl CoA Racemase Provides Mycobacterium tuberculosis Catabolic Access to Cholesterol Esters

Metabolism of cholesterol by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) contributes to its pathogenesis. We show that ChsE4-ChsE5 (Rv3504/Rv3505) specifically catalyzes dehydrogenation of the (25S)-3-oxo-cholest-4-en-26-oyl CoA diastereomer in cholesterol side chain β-oxidation. Thus a dichotomy between the s...

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Publicado en:Biochemistry
Main Authors: Lu, Rui, Schmitz, Werner, Sampson, Nicole S.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600597/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26348625
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00911
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