Isolation and characterization of a Δ-9 fatty acid desaturase gene from the oleaginous yeast Cryptococcus curvatus CBS 570

Yeast

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 723-730

  Meesters, Patricia A E P ^a   Eggink, Gerrit ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

9 fatty acid desaturase; cryptococcus curvatus

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; FATTY ACID; OLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS CURVATUS; DNA SEQUENCE; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE REPLICATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DNA, FUNGAL; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLEIC ACID; OLEIC ACIDS; RATS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CRYPTOCOCCUS CURVATUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029929831     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19960630)12:8<723::AID-YEA963>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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