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In accord with
Gordon Tompkins’ concept, this provides another example of interacting
regulatory and catalytic sites, in this case operating across space. These
regulatory mechanisms are not mutually exclusive; pyrimidine biosynthesis is
controlled by both feedback and repression,15 and cholesterol regulates its
availability by mechanisms operating at the levels of gene, enzyme, and
intercell transport as discovered by Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein.
Relocation of molecules between subcellular compartments in eukaryoteic
cells provides yet another mechanism of regulation. For example, several
enzymes involved in DNA synthesis are produced in the cytoplasm at the G1/S-interface
and translocate into the nucleus where they form the Replitase multi-protein
complex for DNA synthesis mentioned above. 23 |