Biosynthesis of docosahexaenoic acid in Euglena gracilis: Biochemical and molecular evidence for the involvement of a Δ4-fatty acyl group desaturase

Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 32, 2003, Pages 9779-9788

  Meyer, Astrid ^a   Cirpus, Petra ^b   Ott, Claudia ^a   Schlecker, Rainer ^c   Zähringer, Ulrich ^d   Heinz, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b BASF Plant Science GmbH   (Germany)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

^d RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CLONING; DNA; ENZYMES; FATTY ACIDS; YEAST;

RADIOLABELING;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; DELTA4 FATTY ACID DESATURASE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; DOCOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYPTHECODINIUM COHNII; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STABILITY; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; REACTION ANALYSIS; SCHIZOCHYTRIUM; THRAUSTOCHYTRIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FUNGI; HYDROGENATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CRYPTHECODINIUM; CRYPTHECODINIUM COHNII; DINOPHYCEAE; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; PROTOZOA; SCHIZOCHYTRIUM; THRAUSTOCHYTRIUM; THRAUSTOCHYTRIUM SP.;

EID: 0042026506     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi034731y     Document Type: Article

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