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标题：Identification of the peroxisomal β-oxidation enzymes involved in the degradation of long-chain dicarboxylic acids
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作者：Sacha Ferdinandusse ; Simone Denis ; Carlo W. T. van Roermund 等
期刊名称：JLR Papers In Press
印刷版ISSN：0022-2275
电子版ISSN：1539-7262
出版年度：2004
卷号：45
期号：6
页码：1104-1111
DOI：10.1194/jlr.M300512-JLR200
语种：English
出版社：American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
摘要：Dicarboxylic acids (DCAs) are ω-oxidation products of monocarboxylic acids. After activation by a dicarboxylyl-CoA synthetase, the dicarboxylyl-CoA esters are shortened via β-oxidation. Although it has been studied extensively where this β-oxidation process takes place, the intracellular site of DCA oxidation has remained controversial. Making use of fibroblasts from patients with defined mitochondrial and peroxisomal fatty acid oxidation defects, we show in this paper that peroxisomes, and not mitochondria, are involved in the β-oxidation of C16DCA. Additional studies in fibroblasts from patients with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, straight-chain acyl-CoA oxidase (SCOX) deficiency, d -bifunctional protein (DBP) deficiency, and rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata type 1, together with direct enzyme measurements with human recombinant l -bifunctional protein (LBP) and DBP expressed in a fox2 deletion mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae , show that the main enzymes involved in β-oxidation of C16DCA are SCOX, both LBP and DBP, and sterol carrier protein X, possibly together with the classic 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase. This is the first indication of a specific function for LBP, which has remained elusive until now.