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- biochemistry, thioesterases are enzymes which belong to the esterase family. Esterases, in turn, are one type of the several hydrolases known. Thioesterases exhibit...
- Acyl-protein thioesterases are enzymes that cleave off lipid modifications on proteins, located on the sulfur atom of cysteine residues linked via a thioester...
- Acyl-coenzyme A thioesterase 8 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ACOT8 gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a peroxisomal thioesterase that appears...
- Acyl-CoA thioesterase 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ACOT1 gene. The ACOT1 gene is located on the 14th chromosome, with its specific localization...
- Acyl-CoA thioesterase 9 is a protein that is encoded by the human ACOT9 gene. It is a member of the acyl-CoA thioesterase superfamily, which is a group...
- Palmitoyl protein hydrolase/thioesterases is an enzyme (EC 3.1.2.22) that removes thioester-linked fatty acyl groups such as palmitate from modified cysteine...
- of an acyl carrier protein (ACP), and is released by the action of a thioesterase (TE) upon reaching a carbon chain length of 16 (palmitic acid). There...
- Palmitoyl-protein thioesterase 1 (PPT-1), also known as palmitoyl-protein hydrolase 1, is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PPT1 gene. PPT-1 a...
- Palmitoyl protein thioesterase, enzymes that remove thioester-linked fatty acyl groups PPT1, a member of the palmitoyl protein thioesterase family PPT2, a...
- The enzyme fluoroacetyl-CoA thioesterase (EC 3.1.2.29; systematic name fluoroacetyl-CoA hydrolase) catalyses the following reaction: fluoroacetyl-CoA +...