The Research Progress and Application Prospect of Uncoupling Protein 1 (UCP1)
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Fatty acids change the conformation of uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1).
UCP1 catalyzes proton leak across the mitochondrial inner membrane to disengage substrate oxidation from ATP production. It is well established that UCP1 is activated by fatty acids and inhibited by purine nucleotides, but precisely how this regulation occurs remains unsettled. Although fatty acids can competitively overcome nucleotide inhibition in functional assays, fatty acids have little ef...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bioprocess
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2164-5566,2164-5582
DOI: 10.12677/bp.2012.23021