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Nathanael Caveney

Institution
The University of British Columbia

Projects

Structure and function of an ancestral acetyl-CoA carboxylase

Lead Institution
University of British Columbia
Principal Investigator
Natalie Strynadka
Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) is a biotin-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the first committed step in lipid biosynthesis in Bacteria and Eukarya. We aim to characterize AccM, an ACC from an oleaginous…