Fatty acid unsaturation in the red alga Porphyridium cruentum. Is the methylene interrupted nature of polyunsaturated fatty acids an intrinsic property of the desaturases?

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism

Volumn 1344, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-64

  Cohen, Zvi ^a   Shiran, Devora ^a   Khozin, Inna ^a   Heimer, Yair M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fatty acid desaturase; Methylene interruption; Polyunsaturated fatty acid; Porphyridium cruentum

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED ALGA;

ALGAE; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; LIPIDS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031556936     PISSN: 00052760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2760(96)00132-4     Document Type: Article

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