Fatty acid elongation in yeast - Biochemical characteristics of the enzyme system and isolation of elongation-defective mutants

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 477-485

  Dittrich, Franziska ^a   Zajonc, Dirk ^a   Hühne, Kathrin ^a   Hoja, Ursula ^a   Ekici, Arif ^a   Greiner, Eva ^a   Klein, Hans ^a   Hofmann, Jörg ^a   Bessoule, Jean Jacques ^b   Sperling, Petra ^c   Schweizer, Eckhart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Institut de Biochimie Cellulaire et Neurochimie du CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elongation mutant; Fatty acid elongation; Michaelis constant; Synthetic lethality; Very long chain fatty acid

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; ELONGATION FACTOR; VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HYDROLYSIS; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 6844241947     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2520477.x     Document Type: Article

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