peroxisomes

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peroxisomes

Membrane-bound cell organelles containing oxidative enzymes concerned in the detoxification of various molecules and in the breakdown of fatty acids to acetyl-CoA.

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The team found that medium-chain fatty alcohols could be produced in yeast by targeted expression of fatty acyl-CoA reductase, or TaFAR, in the peroxisome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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In cells that lacked Pex11b, peroxisomes weren't divvied up evenly: in some cases, one daughter cell ended up with all of the peroxisomes and the other didn't get any at all.

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Peroxisomes are thought to form by the division of pre-exiting peroxisomes after the import of newly synthesized proteins.

Peroxisome biogenesis and human peroxisome-deficiency disorders

2013) reported that 13 tag single nucleotide polymorphisms in the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) signaling pathway are associated with porcine meat quality traits.

Gene expression patterns associated with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) signaling in the longissimus dorsi of Hanwoo (Korean cattle)

ABCD1 is a protein located in the peroxisomes, compartments of the cell that detoxify chemicals and lipids, and thus the implication of mitochondria in such a disease was not obvious.

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2008), we observed a marked hepatomegaly in mPPAR[alpha] mice exposed to TRI that may be due to cellular hypertrophy resulting from increased numbers of peroxisomes (Nakajima et al.

Differential response to trichloroethylene-induced hepatosteatosis in wild-type and PPAR[alpha]-humanized mice

Mice engineered to direct catalase to its usual place, in peroxisomes, showed only a modest increase in life span.

Long live the mammals: antioxidant redirection extends mouse life span

These data indicate that [beta]-oxidation of C24:0 to C16:0 takes place exclusively in peroxisomes and not in mitochondria.

Method for measurement of peroxisomal very-long-chain fatty acid ([beta]-oxidation in human skin fibroblasts using stable-isotope-labeled tetracosanoic acid

Although peroxisomes are characteristically found in aerobic cells with mitochondria, there is evidence that peroxisomal enzymes occur in the amitochondriate microsporidian Spraguea lophii.

Catalase in microsporidian spores before and during discharge

This allowed scientists to distinguish those proteins that partition with peroxisomes from contaminating proteins and develop a catalogue of candidate proteins that occupy the peroxisome in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Institute for Systems Biology Researchers Leverage Proteomics Technologies to Identify New Structures and Associations within Cells

PPAR[alpha] (NR1C1) is the founding member of the family and was initially isolated as the receptor inducing the hepatic proliferation of peroxisomes in rodents in response to synthetic chemicals.

The pollutant Diethylhexyl phthalate regulates hepatic energy metabolism via species-specific PPAR[alpha]-dependent mechanisms

A function of peroxisomes is to manage the beta-oxidation of long chain fatty acids.

Peroxisomal catalase in extrusion apparatus posterior vacuole of microsporidian spores