New insight into Phaeodactylum tricornutum fatty acid metabolism. Cloning and functional characterization of plastidial and microsomal δ12-fatty acid desaturases

Plant Physiology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1648-1660

  Domergue, Frédéric ^a   Spiekermann, Patricia ^a   Lerchl, Jens ^b,f   Beckmann, Christoph ^d   Kilian, Oliver ^c   Kroth, Peter G ^c   Boland, Wilhem ^d   Zähringer, Ulrich ^e   Heinz, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^e RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^f Plant Science Sweden AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPOSTING; DNA; ENZYMES; ISOMERS; METABOLISM; PLANTS (BOTANY); YEAST;

SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

FATTY ACIDS;

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMES; FATTY ACIDS; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS; YEASTS;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BRASSICA NAPUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; PHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SINAPIS ARVENSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0037392456     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.102.018317     Document Type: Article

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