Nucleotide sequence of a cDNA clone encoding a precursor to stearoyl-(acyl-carrier-protein) desaturase from spinach, Spinacia oleracea

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 711-713

  Nishida, Ikuo ^a   Beppu, Toshio ^b   Matsuo, Tomoaki ^c   Murata, Norio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Nishi Tokyo University   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA; chloroplast; fatty acid unsaturation; glycerolipid biosynthesis; Spinacia oleracea

Indexed keywords

ACYL (ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN)DESATURASE; ACYL-(ACYL-CARRIER-PROTEIN)DESATURASE; DNA; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026885957     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: 15735028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00026799     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Primary structure of the precursor and mature forms of stearoylacyl carrier protein desaturase from safflower embryos and requirement of ferredoxin for enzyme activity
2. Fatty acid metabolism
3. Selection of AUG initiation codons differs in plants and animals
4. Improvement of the dideoxy chain termination method of DNA sequencing by use of deoxy-7-deazaguanosine triphosphate in place of dGTP
5. Stearoyl-acyl-carrier-protein desaturase from higher plants is structurally unrelated to the animal and fungal homologs