Highly unsaturated fatty acid synthesis in vertebrates: New insights with the cloning and characterization of a Δ6 desaturase of atlantic salmon

Lipids

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-24

  Zheng, Xiaozhong ^a   Tocher, Douglas R ^a   Dickson, Cathryn A ^a   Bell, J Gordon ^a   Teale, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BRAIN; CLONING; DNA; ENZYMES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TISSUE;

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC (DHA) ACIDS; EICOSAPENTAENOIC (EPA) ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGHLY UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS (HUFA);

FATTY ACIDS;

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME B5; FISH OIL; GENOMIC DNA; HEME; HISTIDINE; LINOLEOYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; VEGETABLE OIL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; GILL; HEART; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMON; SPLEEN; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIETARY FATS, UNSATURATED; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GENE COMPONENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LINOLEOYL-COA DESATURASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SALMON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

SALMO SALAR; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 15444361997     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-005-1355-7     Document Type: Article

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