Δ6-Fatty acid desaturase from an arachidonic acid-producing Mortierella fungus: Gene cloning and its heterologous expression in a fungus, Aspergillus

Gene

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 445-453

  Sakuradani, Eiji ^a   Kobayashi, Michihiko ^a   Shimizu, Sakayu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Linolenic acid; Fatty acid desaturation; Mortierella alpina; Polyunsaturated fatty acid

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; FATTY ACID; GAMMA LINOLENIC ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LINOLEOYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; LIPID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FUNGUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORTIERELLA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ASPERGILLUS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MORTIERELLA ALPINA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; LINOLEOYL-COA DESATURASE; LIPIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORTIERELLA; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032589910     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00359-5     Document Type: Article

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