Signalling pathways controlling fatty acid desaturation

Subcellular Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue , 2008, Pages 71-99

  Mansilla, María Cecilia ^a   Banchio, Claudia ^a   de Mendoza, Diego ^b  

^a Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Departamento de Microbiología ^*

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Desaturase; Gene regulation; Membrane fluidity; Signal transduction; Unsaturated fatty acids

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; SCD1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR-ACTIVATED RECEPTORS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEAROYL-COA DESATURASE; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEINS; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 58149286597     PISSN: 03060225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8831-5_3     Document Type: Article

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