Identification of A long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid acyl-coenzyme a synthetase from the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana

Plant Physiology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 402-408

  Tonon, Thierry ^a,b   Qing, Renwei ^a,c   Harvey, David ^a   Li, Yi ^a   Larson, Tony Robert ^a   Graham, Ian Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COENZYMES; CULTIVATION; FATTY ACIDS; YEAST;

ALGAL GENE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID (DHA); THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

FATTY ACIDS; PLANTS;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA;

ACYL COENZYME A; FATTY ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIATOM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ACYL COENZYME A; ANIMALS; COENZYME A LIGASES; DIATOMS; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 22144478926     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.054528     Document Type: Article

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