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Microsomal omega-3 fatty acid desaturase catalyzes the conversion of 18:2 (linoleic acid) to 18:3 (alpha-linolenic acid) in phospholipids, which are the main constituents of extrachloroplast membranes. Transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants with increased 18:3 contents (designated SIIn

In an attempt to clarify the involvement of fatty acid desaturases (FADs) in the freezing tolerance of Chlorella vulgaris IAM C-27, developed by hardening, we have isolated cDNA clones for two types of FADs from the Chlorella strain, based on the sequence information of genes for delta12 and omega-3

The fatty-acid composition of C. roseus and N. tabacum cell suspension cultures was unaffected by subculture on Wood and Braun, Murashige and Skoog, or Gamborg B5C media. However, placing the cultures - which were normally grown at 25° C - at 15° C reduced growth but resulted in enhanced formation

Seed oils of a number of Asteraceae and Euphorbiaceae species are enriched in 12-epoxyoctadeca-cis-9-enoic acid (vernolic acid), an unusual 18-carbon Delta(12)-epoxy fatty acid with potential industrial value. It has been previously demonstrated that the epoxy group of vernolic acid is synthesized

There are two types of safflower oil, high oleic (HO) with 70-75 % oleic acid and high linoleic (HL) with about 70 % linoleic acid. The original HO trait in safflower, found in an introduction from India, is controlled by a partially recessive allele ol at a single locus (Knowles and Bill 1964). In

The major fatty acids (16 and 18 carbons) in leaves, flowers, and seeds of Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Catterton have been analyzed at various intervals during the growth period. From the pattern of their accumulation and relative distribution, it was found that A) the amount of fatty acids in upper

CONCLUSIONS Expression of sesame plastidial FAD7 desaturase modified with the endoplasmic reticulum targeting and retention signals, enhances the α-linolenic acid accumulation in seeds of Nicotiana tabacum. In plants, plastidial ω-3 fatty acid desaturase-7 (FAD7) catalyzes the formation of C16 and

Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA, C18:3delta6.9.12) is nutritional and important polyunsaturated fatty acid in human and animal diets. GLA play an important role in hormone regulation and fatty acid metabolization. Furthermore it is also the biological precursor of a group of molecules, including

BACKGROUND Plant lipoxygenases (LOXs) have been proposed to form biologically active compounds both during normal developmental stages such as germination or growth as well as during responses to environmental stress such as wounding or pathogen attack. In our previous study, we found that enzyme

13-Lipoxygenase (13-LOX) and 13-hydroperoxide lyases (13-HPL) are the key enzymes for the production of the 'green note' compounds hexanal, (3Z)- and (2E)-hexenal in plant tissues. To produce high levels of 13-LOX and 13-HPL enzymatic activities for a biocatalytic process to generate C(6)-aldehydes

Long-chain aldehydes (LCA), such as pentadecanal (PD), (8Z,11Z)-heptadecadienal (HDD) and (8Z,11Z,14Z)-heptadecatrienal (HDT), were identified in the essential oils obtained from fresh green tobacco leaves (Nicotiana tabacum cv. BY2 and N. tabacum cv. MC). PD, HDD and HDT were found to be produced

A cDNA encoding the plastid omega-3 fatty acid desaturase was isolated from a tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. SR1) leaf cDNA library. The amino terminal extension of the deduced amino acid sequence of this clone had a characteristic feature of the transit peptides of plastid-destined proteins.

BACKGROUND The application and nutritional value of vegetable oil is highly dependent on its fatty acid composition, especially the relative proportion of its two major fatty acids, i.e oleic acid and linoleic acid. Microsomal oleoyl phosphatidylcholine desaturase encoded by FAD2 gene is known to

Stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase (SAD), locating in the plastid stroma, is an important fatty acid biosynthetic enzyme in higher plants. SAD catalyzes desaturation of stearoyl-ACP to oleyl-ACP and plays a key role in determining the homeostasis between saturated fatty acids and unsaturated

In the remodeling pathway for the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine (PC), acyl-CoA-dependent lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC) acyltransferase (LPCAT) catalyzes the reacylation of lysoPC. A number of genes encoding LPCATs have been cloned and characterized from several plants in recent years. Using