The structure of full-length AFPK supports the ACP linker in a role that regulates iterative polyketide and fatty acid assembly.

ABSTRACT: The polyketide synthases (PKSs) in microbes and the cytoplasmic fatty acid synthases in humans (FASs) are related enzymes that have been well studied. As a result, there is a paradigm explaining in general terms how FASs repeatedly use a set of enzymatic domains to produce simple fats, while PKSs use the domains in a much more complex manner to produce pharmaceuticals and other elaborate molecules. However, most animals also have PKSs that do not conform to the rules described in microbes, including a large family of enzymes that bridge fatty acid and polyketide metabolism, the animal FAS-like PKSs (AFPKs). Here, we present the cryoelectron microscopy structures of two AFPKs from sea slugs. While the AFPK resemble mammalian FASs, their chemical products mimic those of PKSs in complexity. H

SUBMITTER: Schubert HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11831141 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature