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Acetolactate synthase complex Overview

GO Annotations consist of four mandatory components: a gene product, a term from one of the three Gene Ontology (GO) controlled vocabularies (Molecular Function, Biological Process, and Cellular Component), a reference, and an evidence code.


Summary
Catalyzes the first step that is common to the biosynthesis of branched-chain amino acids. The reaction involves the irreversible decarboxylation of pyruvate to a bound hydroxyethyl group that then condenses with either a second pyruvate molecule to form 2-acetolactate as the first step in the biosynthesis of valine and leucine. or with 2-ketobutyrate to form 2-aceto-2-hydroxybutyrate as the initial step in the biosynthesis of isoleucine.
GO Slim Terms

The yeast GO Slim terms are higher level terms that best represent the major S. cerevisiae biological processes, functions, and cellular components. The GO Slim terms listed here are the broader parent terms for the specific terms to which this gene product is annotated, and thus represent the more general processes, functions, and components in which it is involved.

transferase activity, amino acid metabolic process, biosynthetic process, small molecule metabolic process, mitochondrion, organelle