Conversion of palmitate to unsaturated fatty acids differs in a Neurospora crassa mutant with impaired fatty acid synthase activity

Lipids

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 303-306

  Stafford, Allan E ^a   McKeon, Thomas A ^a   Goodrich Tanrikulu, Marta ^a  

^a WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; PALMITIC ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN;

FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACID SYNTHETASE COMPLEX; FATTY ACIDS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PALMITIC ACID; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 0031921215     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-998-0209-7     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. - Mutation, J. Bacteriol. 124, 524-533.
2. Henry, S.A., and Keith, A.D. (1971) Saturated Fatty Acid Requirer of Neurospora crassa, J. Bacteriol. 106, 174-182.
3. Mikolajczyk, S., and Brody, S. (1990) De novo Fatty Acid Synthesis Mediated by Acyl-Carrier Protein in Neurospora crassa Mitochondria, Eur. J. Biochem. 187, 431-437.
4. Zensen, R., Husmann, H., Schneider, R., Peine, T., and Weiss, H. (1992) De novo Synthesis and Desaturation of Fatty Acids at the Mitochondrial Acyl-Carrier Protein, a Subunit of NADH:Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase in Neurospora crassa, FEBS Lett. 310, 179-181.
5. McKeon, T.A., Goodrich-Tanrikulu, M., Lin, J.-T., and Stafford, A. (1997) Pathways for Fatty Acid Elongation and Desaturation in Neurospora crassa, Lipids 32, 1-5.
6. Coté, G.G., and Brody, S. (1987) Circadian Rhythms in Neurospora crassa: Membrane Composition of a Mutant Defective in Temperature Compensation, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 898, 23-26.
7. Goodrich-Tanrikulu, M., Stafford, A.E., Lin, J.-T., Makapugay, M.I., Fuller, G., and McKeon, T.A. (1994) Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Novel ufa Mutants of Neurospora crassa, Microbiology 140, 2683-2690.
8. Roggenkamp, R., Numa, S., and Schweizer, E. (1980) Fatty Acid-Requiring Mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Defective in Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77, 1814-1817.
9. Bessoule, J.-J., Lessire, R., Rigoulet, M., Guerin, B., and Cassagne, C. (1988) Localization of the Synthesis of Very-Long-Chain Fatty Acid in Mitochondria from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Eur. J. Biochem. 177, 207-211.
10. Toke, D.A., and Martin, C.E. (1996) Isolation and Characterization of a Gene Affecting Fatty Acid Elongation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, J. Biol. Chem. 271, 18413-18422.