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Agrobacterium-Mediated Transient Gene Expression in Developing Ricinus communis Seeds: A First Step in Making the Castor Oil Plant a Chemical Biofactory

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019
The castor oil plant represents a promising platform to produce oils with industrial applications. However, its use in biotechnology is limited by the absence of a well-established procedure to transform it, and a poor understanding of gene regulation ...
Alfonso Sánchez-Álvarez, Noemí Ruíz-López, Antonio Javier Moreno-Pérez, Enrique Martínez-Force, Rafael Garcés, Joaquín J. Salas   +5 more
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Fatty acid elongase is required for shoot development in rice [PDF]

The Plant Journal, 2011
SummaryOrganisms are covered extracellularly with cuticular waxes that consist of various fatty acids. In higher plants, extracellular waxes act as indispensable barriers to protect the plants from physical and biological stresses such as drought and pathogen attacks.
Yukihiro, Ito, Fumiko, Kimura, Kazuma, Hirakata, Katsutoshi, Tsuda, Tomoaki, Takasugi, Mitsugu, Eiguchi, Kiyotaka, Nakagawa, Nori, Kurata   +7 more
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Physiological roles of fatty acyl desaturases and elongases in marine fish: Characterisation of cDNAs of fatty acyl delta6 desaturase and elovl5 elongase of cobia (Rachycentron canadum) [PDF]

, 2009
In the present paper, we investigated the expression of fatty acyl desaturase and elongase genes in a marine teleost, cobia, a species of great interest due to its considerable aquaculture potential.
Monroig, Oscar, Tocher, Douglas R, Morais, Sofia, Zheng, Xiaozhong, Ding, Zhaokun, Xu, Youqing   +5 more
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Elongase Gene And Production Of Delta9-polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (Patent US 7601889 B2) [PDF]

, 2009
This invention relates to a new elongase gene having the sequence SEQ ID NO: 1 or its derivatives, to a gene construct comprising this sequence or its derivatives and to its use.
Napier, J. A., Larzarus C. M., Qi, B., Lerchl, J.   +3 more
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Functional Characterization of the Arabidopsis β-Ketoacyl-Coenzyme A Reductase Candidates of the Fatty Acid Elongase [PDF]

, 2009
In plants, very-long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs; \u3e18 carbon) are precursors of sphingolipids, triacylglycerols, cuticular waxes, and suberin. VLCFAs are synthesized by a multiprotein membrane-bound fatty acid elongation system that catalyzes four ...
Haslam, Richard P., Napier, Johnathan A., Beaudoin, Frédéric, Kunst, L., Johnathan A. Napier, Kunst, Ljerka, Huanquan Zheng, Richard P. Haslam, Beaudoin, F., Fengling Li, Zheng, Huanquan, Frédéric Beaudoin, Wu, Xianzhong, Haslam, R. P., Ljerka Kunst, Li, Fengling, Markham, J. E., Wu, X., Li, F., Markham, Jennifer E., Markham, Jonathan E., Napier, J. A., Zheng, H., Xianzhong Wu, Jennifer E. Markham   +24 more
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Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Involving Δ8 Desaturation and Differential DNA Methylation of FADS2 Regulates Proliferation of Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells

Frontiers in Immunology, 2018
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are important for immune function. Limited evidence indicates that immune cell activation involves endogenous PUFA synthesis, but this has not been characterised.
Charlene M. Sibbons, Charlene M. Sibbons, Nicola A. Irvine, J. Eduardo Pérez-Mojica, Philip C. Calder, Karen A. Lillycrop, Barbara A. Fielding, Graham C. Burdge   +7 more
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Zinc Deficiency, Plasma Fatty Acid Profile and Desaturase Activities in Hemodialysis Patients: Is Supplementation Necessary?

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2021
Background: Desaturation and elongation are critical processes in endogenous metabolic fatty acid pathways. Zinc (Zn) is a cofactor for desaturases and elongases enzymes.
Marija Takic, Milica Zekovic, Brankica Terzic, Brankica Terzic, Aleksandar Stojsavljevic, Mirjana Mijuskovic, Mirjana Mijuskovic, Slavica Radjen, Slavica Radjen, Danijela Ristic-Medic, Danijela Ristic-Medic   +10 more
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Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenic Capacity Is Regulated by Elovl6

Cell Reports, 2015
Although many transcriptional pathways regulating BAT have been identified, the role of lipid biosynthetic enzymes in thermogenesis has been less investigated.
Chong Yew Tan, Samuel Virtue, Guillaume Bidault, Martin Dale, Rachel Hagen, Julian L. Griffin, Antonio Vidal-Puig   +6 more
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Cooperative Synthesis of Ultra Long-Chain Fatty Acid and Ceramide during Keratinocyte Differentiation. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The lipid lamellae in the stratum corneum is important for the epidermal permeability barrier. The lipid lamellae component ceramide (CER), comprising an ultra long-chain (ULC) fatty acid (FA) of ≥26 carbons (ULC CER), plays an essential role in barrier ...
Yukiko Mizutani, Hui Sun, Yusuke Ohno, Takayuki Sassa, Takeshi Wakashima, Mari Obara, Kohei Yuyama, Akio Kihara, Yasuyuki Igarashi   +8 more
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Mammalian Fatty Acid Elongases [PDF]

, 2009
Very long chain fatty acids confer functional diversity on cells by variations in their chain length and degree of unsaturation. Microsomal fatty acid elongation represents the major pathway for determining the chain length of saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids in cellular lipids.
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