Cloning and molecular characterization of a novel acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1-like gene (PtDGAT1) from the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

FEBS Journal

Volumn 278, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3651-3666

  Guihéneuf, Freddy ^a   Leu, Stefan ^a   Zarka, Aliza ^a   Khozin Goldberg, Inna ^a   Khalilov, Ilkhom ^a   Boussiba, Sammy ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacillariophyceae; diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 like protein; intron retention splicing; Phaeodactylum tricornutum; triacylglycerol

Indexed keywords

CIS FATTY ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NITROGEN; SATURATED FATTY ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE 1 GENE; DIATOM; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; STRAMENOPILE; THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA;

ACYL COENZYME A; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIACYLGLYCEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; DIATOMS; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYCEAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; PHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA;

EID: 80052961278     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08284.x     Document Type: Review

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