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SUBMITTER: Chen H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3592867 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Haiqin H Gu Zhennan Z Zhang Hao H Wang Mingxuan M Chen Wei W Lowther W Todd WT Chen Yong Q YQ
PloS one 20130308 3
Fatty acid desaturase enzymes perform dehydrogenation reactions leading to the insertion of double bonds in fatty acids, and are divided into soluble and integral membrane classes. Crystal structures of soluble desaturases are available; however, membrane desaturases have defied decades of efforts due largely to the difficulty of generating recombinant desaturase proteins for crystallographic analysis. Mortierella alpina is an oleaginous fungus which possesses eight membrane desaturases involved ...[more]