Recent advances in the study of fatty acid desaturases from animals and lower eukaryotes

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 97-106

  Pereira, Suzette L ^a   Leonard, Amanda E ^a   Mukerji, Pradip ^a  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; DELTA4 DESATURASE; DELTA5 DESATURASE; DELTA8 DESATURASE; DESATURASE; LINOLEOYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; OMEGA3 DESATURASE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0037321867     PISSN: 09523278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-3278(02)00259-4     Document Type: Article

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