Protein Information

Name fatty acid desaturases (protein family or complex)
Synonyms Fatty acid desaturase; Fatty acid desaturases

Compound Information

Name IBA
CAS

Reference List

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18786507 Yara A, Yaeno T, Hasegawa M, Seto H, Seo S, Kusumi K, Iba K: Resistance to Magnaporthe grisea in transgenic rice with suppressed expression of genes encoding allene oxide cyclase and phytodienoic acid reductase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2008 Nov 21;376(3):460-5. Epub 2008 Sep 9.

Iba, Disease resistance against Magnaporthe grisea is enhanced in transgenic rice with suppression of omega-3 fatty acid desaturases, Plant Cell Physiol. 48 (2007) 1263-1274].
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17716996 Yara A, Yaeno T, Hasegawa M, Seto H, Montillet JL, Kusumi K, Seo S, Iba K: Disease resistance against Magnaporthe grisea is enhanced in transgenic rice with suppression of omega-3 fatty acid desaturases. Plant Cell Physiol. 2007 Sep;48(9):1263-74. Epub 2007 Aug 23.

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9484441 Berberich T, Harada M, Sugawara K, Kodama H, Iba K, Kusano T: Two maize genes encoding omega-3 fatty acid desaturase and their differential expression to temperature. Plant Mol Biol. 1998 Jan;36(2):297-306.


The tissue-specific expression and DNA sequence data indicate that both genes encode plastidic omega-3 fatty acid desaturases.
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8866893 Hamada T, Kodama H, Nishimura M, Iba K: Modification of fatty acid composition by over- and antisense-expression of a microsomal omega-3 fatty acid desaturase gene in transgenic tobacco. Transgenic Res. 1996 Mar;5(2):115-21.


omega-3 fatty acid desaturases, which catalyse the conversion of linoleic acid (18:2) to linolenic acid (18:3) in lipids, are located in the microsomes and plastid membranes.
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9049269 Kodama H, Akagi H, Kusumi K, Fujimura T, Iba K: Structure, chromosomal location and expression of a rice gene encoding the microsome omega-3 fatty acid desaturase. Plant Mol Biol. 1997 Feb;33(3):493-502.


The omega-3 fatty acid desaturases are membrane-bound enzymes catalyzing the conversion of linoleic acid to linolenic acid in lipids, and are located both in the microsome and plastid envelopes as two different isoforms.
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