Isolation of a Δ5 desaturase gene from Euglena gracilis and functional dissection of its HPGG and HDASH motifs

Lipids

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 913-926

  Pollak, Dana Walters ^a   Bostick, Michael W ^a   Yoon, Hyeryoung ^a   Wang, Jamie ^a   Hollerbach, Dieter H ^a   He, Hongxian ^a   Damude, Howard G ^a   Zhang, Hongxiang ^a   Yadav, Narendra S ^a   Hong, Seung Pyo ^a   Sharpe, Pamela ^a   Xue, Zhixiong ^a   Zhu, Quinn ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

5 desaturase; Double mutant; Fatty acid biosynthesis; HDASH motif; HPGG motif; Yarrowia lipolytica

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE 1; AMINO ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ARGININE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIHOMO GAMMA LINOLENIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATOM; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; HDASH MOTIF; HPGG MOTIF; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; PHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

EID: 84866732382     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: 15589307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-012-3690-1     Document Type: Article

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