A second functional Δ5 fatty acid desaturase in the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1813-1818

  Saito, Tamao ^a   Morio, Takahiro ^b   Ochiai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA project; Cytochrome b5; Delta 5; Desaturase; Dictyostelium discoideum

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; CYTOCHROME B5; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DELTA 5 FATTY ACID DESATURASE; DELTA-5 FATTY ACID DESATURASE; HELMINTH PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; ISOENZYME; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RICE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FUNGI; MORTIERELLA ALPINA; MYXOGASTRIA; ORYZA SATIVA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HELMINTH PROTEINS; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034146385     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01180.x     Document Type: Article

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