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Fluoroacetyl-CoA thioesterase, a Common card
The enzyme fluoroacetyl-CoA thioesterase catalyses the following reaction: The enzyme characterised from the plant Dichapetalum cymosum and the bacterium Streptomyces cattleya hydrolyses fluoroacetyl-CoA to coenzyme A and fluoroacetic acid, which form the thioester in the starting material.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 41
- DEF
- 18
- Power
- 59
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170
Power 59 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 5 % of WikiCards cards.
Fluoroacetyl-CoA thioesterase quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Fluoroacetyl-CoA thioesterase card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Fluoroacetate is extremely toxic to most ______.
Answer
organisms. Fluoroacetate is extremely toxic to most organisms. From the Fluoroacetyl-CoA thioesterase article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Fluoroacetyl-CoA thioesterase. Fluoroacetyl-CoA thioesterase 41 · Calocypha 38 · Cis fuscipes 33 · Truncilla donaciformis 29 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Dichapetalum cymosum is native to northern parts of Southern Africa and is a common cause of lethal cattle poisoning owing to the content of fluoroacetic acid in its leaves.
- Fluoroacetate is extremely toxic to most organisms.
- The enzyme ensures that any fluoroacetyl-CoA produced by normal metabolic processes that use acetyl-CoA cannot go on to be incorporated into fluorocitric acid by citrate synthase.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Fluoroacetyl-CoA thioesterase article was read about 170 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 41 and blocks with 18: each hit it takes is cut by 7 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Fluoroacetyl-CoA thioesterase (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Zyirkon ( talk ), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.