Substrate specificity and preference of Δ6-desaturase of Mucor rouxii

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2744-2748

  Na Ranong, Sutthicha ^a   Laoteng, Kobkul ^a   Kittakoop, Prasat ^b   Tantichareon, Morakot ^a,b   Cheevadhanarak, Supapon ^a  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Mucor rouxii; Poly unsaturated fatty acid; Linolenic acid; 6 Desaturase

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; LINOLEOYL COENZYME A DESATURASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EUKARYOTE; MUCOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMYLOMYCES ROUXII; EUKARYOTA; MUCOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 18144397848     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.04.010     Document Type: Article

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