Identification and Functional Analysis of Delta-9 Desaturase, a Key Enzyme in PUFA Synthesis, Isolated from the Oleaginous Diatom Fistulifera

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Muto, Masaki ^a,b   Kubota, Chihiro ^a   Tanaka, Masayoshi ^a,b   Satoh, Akira ^b,c   Matsumoto, Mitsufumi ^b,d   Yoshino, Tomoko ^a   Tanaka, Tsuyoshi ^a,b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c YAMAHA MOTOR CO   (Japan)

^d ELECTRIC POWER DEVELOPMENT CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; BIODIESEL; HISTIDINE; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DIATOM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FISTULIFERA; GENE DELETION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DIATOMS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEAROYL-COA DESATURASE;

EID: 84883497872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073507     Document Type: Article

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