The phrase "acetate kinase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific or biochemical contexts, particularly when discussing enzymes involved in acetate metabolism.
Example: "The study focused on the role of acetate kinase in the conversion of acetate to energy in bacterial cells."
Alternatives: "acetate-phosphate kinase" or "acetate phosphorylase".
This acetic acid production via acetate kinase can stoichiometrically generate ATP (Condon 1987).
To disrupt the acetic acid formation, the genes encoding phosphotransacetylase (pta) and acetate kinase (ack) in chromosome from wild type SCUT27 were inserted by aph through homologous recombination.
Fowler, M. L., Ingram-Smith, C. & Smith, K. S. Novel pyrophosphate-forming acetate kinase from the protist Entamoeba histolytica.
Dang, T. & Ingram-Smith, C. Investigation of pyrophosphate versus ATP substrate selection in the Entamoeba histolytica acetate kinase.
Pineda, E. et al. Roles of acetyl-CoA synthetase (ADP-forming) and acetate kinase (PPi-forming) in ATP and PPi supply in Entamoeba histolytica.
Yoshioka, A., Murata, K. & Kawai, S. Structural and mutational analysis of amino acid residues involved in ATP specificity of Escherichia coli acetate kinase.
Since acetate kinase is the enzyme that converts acetyl phosphate to acetate and ATP, an ackA mutant is also expected to be defective in anaerobic growth on xylose.
The effects of inactivating acetate kinase (ack) and phosphotransbutyrylase (ptb) genes in the host on butanol production were then studied.
Only three types of enzyme have been identified as PPi-dependent kinases: PPi-dependent phosphofructokinase (PPi-PFK), PPi-dependent pyruvate phosphate dikinase (PPi-PPDK), and PPi-dependent acetate kinase (PPi-ACK).
In a previous study, an Escherichia coli strain lacking the key enzymes (acetate kinase and phosphotransacetylase, ACK PTA) of the major acetate synthesis pathways reduced acetate accumulation.
We also generated acetate kinase (AK) and butyrate kinase (BK) knockout (KO) mutants of M5 using a modified protocol to increase the antibiotic-resistance gene expression.
