Identification of a novel fatty acid elongase with a wide substrate specificity from arachidonic acid-producing fungus Mortierella alpina 1S-4

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 709-716

  Sakuradani, Eiji ^a   Nojiri, Masutoshi ^a   Suzuki, Haruna ^a   Shimizu, Sakayu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fatty acid elongase; Gene expression; Mortierella alpina; Polyunsaturated fatty acid; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; EICOSANOIC; FATTY ACID ELONGASE; HEXADECANOIC ACID; HIGH-CONTENT; ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION; MORTIERELLA ALPINA; MORTIERELLA ALPINA 1S-4; OCTADECANOIC ACIDS; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; RNA INTERFERENCE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; YEAST SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST TRANSFORMANT;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; BIOACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; STEARIC ACID; YEAST;

ACIDS;

9 HEXADECENOIC ACID; ARACHIDIC ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACID; FATTY ACID ELONGASE; FUNGAL ENZYME; LINOLEIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID DERIVATIVE; STEARIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORTIERELLA ALPINA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; EICOSANOIC ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORTIERELLA; PALMITIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STEARIC ACIDS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

FUNGI; MORTIERELLA ALPINA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 69949187999     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-009-1999-3     Document Type: Article

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