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acetyl CoA

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acetyl CoA /ac·e·tyl CoA/ (as´ĕ-til) (as´ĕ-tēl″ ko-a´) acetyl coenzyme A.
acetyl CoA
abbr.
acetyl coenzyme A

acetyl CoA
key intermediate in aerobic intermediary metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and some amino acids. Allosteric regulator of the activity of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex and pyruvate carboxylase. Present in low concentrations but with high turnover. Dependent on B-group vitamin, pantothenic acid for structure of coenzyme A.


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parvum, which have been differentiated by sequence polymorphisms in the small subunit ribosomal RNA (13-15), the acetyl CoA synthetase (15), and heat shock protein 70 (16), as well as the Cryptosporidium oocyst wall protein (COWP) (17) genes, and named after the animals from which they were derived.
 
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