Acyl carrier protein
| Acyl/peptidyl carrier protein | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| Symbol | ACP-like_sf | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF00550 | ||||||||
| Pfam clan | CL0314 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR036736 | ||||||||
| PROSITE | PDOC00012 | ||||||||
| CATH | 1nq4 | ||||||||
| SCOP2 | 1nq4 / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
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The acyl carrier protein (ACP) is a cofactor of both fatty acid and polyketide biosynthesis machinery. It is one of the most abundant proteins in cells of E. coli. In both cases, the growing chain is bound to the ACP via a thioester derived from the distal thiol of a 4'-phosphopantetheine moiety.