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Gene information for ACACA (Homo sapiens)
(Information is obtained from NCBI Gene database)
Entrez gene ID31
Official gene symbolACACA
Full nameacetyl-CoA carboxylase alpha
Aliases,ACAC,ACC,ACC1,ACCA,
Gene summaryAcetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) is a complex multifunctional enzyme system. ACC is a biotin-containing enzyme which catalyzes the carboxylation of acetyl-CoA to malonyl-CoA, the rate-limiting step in fatty acid synthesis. There are two ACC forms, alpha and beta, encoded by two different genes. ACC-alpha is highly enriched in lipogenic tissues. The enzyme is under long term control at the transcriptional and translational levels and under short term regulation by the phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of targeted serine residues and by allosteric transformation by citrate or palmitoyl-CoA. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants divergent in the 5' sequence and encoding distinct isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq]
LocationChromosome: 17   Locus: 17q21
Gene position35766902 - 35441927  Map Viewer
Gene orientationminus
Gene size324976 bp
Gene sequence
OMIM ID200350