Metabolic engineering toward enhanced LC-PUFA biosynthesis in Nannochloropsis oceanica: Overexpression of endogenous δ12 desaturase driven by stress-inducible promoter leads to enhanced deposition of polyunsaturated fatty acids in TAG

Algal Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 387-398

  Kaye, Yuval ^a   Grundman, Omer ^a   Leu, Stefan ^a   Zarka, Aliza ^a   Zorin, Boris ^a   Didi Cohen, Shoshana ^a   Khozin Goldberg, Inna ^a   Boussiba, Sammy ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eustigmatophyceae; Genetic engineering; Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids; Microalgae; Nitrogen starvation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943662980     PISSN: 22119264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2015.05.003     Document Type: Article

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