Acetate kinase, an enzyme widely distributed in the Bacteria and Archaea domains, catalyzes the phosphorylation of acetate. We have determined the three-dimensional structure of ...

Phosphate acetyltransferase (Pta) and acetate kinase (Ack) were found in three of the six Bathyarchaeota genomic bins (Supplementary Table 4).

In other aging news, Korean researchers report that a kinase inhibitor, CGK733, may delay cellular senescence. First, the acetate story.