Isolation of Δ12 and ω3-fatty acid desaturase genes from the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis and their heterologous expression to produce linoleic and α-linolenic acids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Yeast

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 605-612

  Kainou, Kumiko ^a   Kamisaka, Yasushi ^a   Kimura, Kazuyoshi ^a   Uemura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Desaturases; FAD2; FAD3; Fatty acids; Kluyveromyces lactis

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; DELTA12 FATTY ACID DESATURASE; LINOLEIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; OMEGA3 FATTY ACID DESATURASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FATTY ACID; FUNGAL DNA; LINOLENIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; KLUYVEROMYCES; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI;

ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS; KLUYVEROMYCES; LINOLEIC ACID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33746583958     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1378     Document Type: Article

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