Desaturase molecular cloning

Bartley, G.E. et al.. Molecular cloning and expression in photosynthetic bacteria of a soybean cDNA coding for phytoene desaturase, an enzyme of the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 6532, 1991. 

Li, Z.H., Molecular cloning and characterization of phytoene desaturase cDNA and leucine-rich repeat protein kinase cDNA from maize, PhD dissertation. Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 1998. 

Molecular cloning of a All desaturase cDNA from Trichoplusia ni pheromone gland... 

Molecular cloning and functional expression of a A9 desaturase-encoding cDNA from T. ni fat body... 

Molecular cloning and functional expression of desaturases from a primitive leafroller moth, Planotortrix octo, from New Zealand... 

Cooney, A., Headon, D.R. 1989. Molecular-cloning of the bovine gene encoding the stearyl coenzyme-A desaturase. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 17, 382-383. 

Aki, T., Shimada, Y., Inagaki, K., Higashimoto, H., Kawamoto, S., Shigeta, S., Ono, K. and Suzuki, O. Molecular cloning and functional characterization of rat delta-6 fatty acid desaturase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 255 (1999) 575-579. 

Sakamoto T, Wada H, Nishida 1, Ohmori M, Murata N. A9 acyl-lipid desaturases of cyanobacteria molecular cloning and substrate specificities to fatty acids, sn-positions and polar head groups. J Biol Chem 1994 in press. 

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