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An in vivo Crosslinking Approach to Isolate Protein Complexes From Drosophila Embryos
Published on: April 23, 2014
The alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complexes of Drosophila melanogaster.
1FlyBase, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.
Abstract:
The conserved family of alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complexes (AKDHCs) catalyze essential reactions in central metabolism and their dysregulation is implicated in several human diseases. Drosophila melanogaster provides an excellent model system to study the genetics and functions of these complexes. However, a systematic account of Drosophila AKDHCs and their composition has been lacking. Here, I identify and classify the genes encoding all Drosophila AKDHC subunits, update their functional annotations and integrate this work into the FlyBase database.

