Encodes a peroxisomal protein with acetyl-CoA synthetase activity that is responsible for the activation of acetate for entry into the glyoxylate cycle.
Computational Description
acyl-activating enzyme 7 (AAE7); FUNCTIONS IN: acetate-CoA ligase activity, AMP binding; INVOLVED IN: glyoxylate cycle, acetate metabolic process; LOCATED IN: peroxisome; EXPRESSED IN: 23 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 14 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: AMP-dependent synthetase/ligase (InterPro:IPR000873); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: acyl activating enzyme 1 (TAIR:AT1G20560.1); Has 73044 Blast hits to 67204 proteins in 3521 species: Archae - 1140; Bacteria - 48125; Metazoa - 3129; Fungi - 3108; Plants - 2327; Viruses - 1; Other Eukaryotes - 15214 (source: NCBI BLink).