Question
Acyl-CoA must use the carnitine shuttle to pass through the ____.
Answer
Acyl-CoA must use the carnitine shuttle to pass through the inner mitochondrial membrane.
Acyl-CoA can pass through porins in the outer membrane, but it needs the assistance of carnitine in order to move through the inner membrane
Note: Acyl-CoA is different than Acetyl-CoA, as Acyl-CoA is a classifiable molecule, since it has a generic R- group while acetyl-CoA is an identifiable molecule.
Another Note: CoA is short for Coenzyme A. It consists of a ß-mercapto-ethylamine group, attached to a pantothenic group, attached to a 3',5' - Adenine DiPhosphate, in that order. The ß-mercapto-ethylamine group is connected to the Acetyl unit, by an acetyl thioester bond.
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A positive sense RNA strand is itself an mRNA and can be translated ____ into DNA.
This amino acid is ____.
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This amino acid is ____.
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