IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 2.3.1.15

Accepted name: glycerol-3-phosphate 1-O-acyltransferase

Reaction: acyl-CoA + sn-glycerol 3-phosphate = CoA + 1-acyl-sn-glycerol 3-phosphate

Other name(s): α-glycerophosphate acyltransferase; 3-glycerophosphate acyltransferase; ACP:sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase; glycerol 3-phosphate acyltransferase; glycerol phosphate acyltransferase; glycerol phosphate transacylase; glycerophosphate acyltransferase; glycerophosphate transacylase; sn-glycerol 3-phosphate acyltransferase; sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase; glycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferase (ambiguous)

Systematic name: acyl-CoA:sn-glycerol-3-phosphate 1-O-acyltransferase

Comments: Acyl-[acyl-carrier protein] can also act as acyl donor. The enzyme acts only on derivatives of fatty acids of chain length above C10

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 9029-96-3

References:

1. Bertrams, M. and Heinz, E. Positional specificity and fatty-acid selectivity of purified sn-glycerol 3-phosphate acyltransferases from chloroplasts. Plant Physiol. 68 (1981) 653-657.

2. Frentzen, M., Heinz, E., McKeon, T.A. and Stumpf, P.K. Specificities and selectivities of glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase and monoacylglycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase from pea and spinach chloroplasts. Eur. J. Biochem. 129 (1983) 629-636. [PMID: 6825679]

3. Green, P.R., Merrill, A.H. and Bell, R.M. Membrane phospholipid synthesis in Escherichia coli. Purification, reconstitution, and characterization of sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase. J. Biol. Chem. 256 (1981) 11151-11159. [PMID: 6350296]

4. Yamashita, S. and Numa, N. Partial purification and properties of glycerophosphate acyltransferase from rat liver. Formation of 1-acylglycerol 3-phosphate from sn-glycerol 3-phosphate and palmityl coenzyme A. Eur. J. Biochem. 31 (1972) 565-573. [PMID: 4650158]

[EC 2.3.1.15 created 1961, modified 1976, modified 1990]


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