Expression and purification of integral membrane fatty acid desaturases.

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 d...

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Main Authors: Haiqin Chen, Zhennan Gu, Hao Zhang, Mingxuan Wang, Wei Chen, W Todd Lowther, Yong Q Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3592867?pdf=render