Society has come to rely heavily on mineral oil for both energy and petrochemical needs.
Plant lipids are uniquely suited to serve as a renewable source of high‐value fatty acids for …

Filamentous fungi are metabolically versatile organisms with a very wide distribution in
nature. They exist in association with other species, eg as lichens or mycorrhiza, as …

Fungal development and secondary metabolite production are coordinated by regulatory
complexes as the trimeric velvet complex. Light accelerates asexual but decreases sexual …

Filamentous fungi undergo significant cellular morphological changes during their life cycle.
It has recently been reported that deletions of genes that are involved in phospholipid …

Caenorhabditis elegans FAT-2 has been characterized as fatty acid Δ12-desaturase able to
desaturate C16 and C18 fatty acids. However, in this report we show that when expressed in …

The homothallic ascomycete Aspergillus nidulans serves as model organism for filamentous
fungi because of its ability to propagate with both asexual and sexual life cycles, and fatty …

Thraustochytrids, marine protists known to accumulate polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)
in lipid droplets, are considered an alternative to fish oils as a source of PUFAs. The major …

The ω6 and ω3 pathways are two major pathways in the biosynthesis of PUFAs. In both of
these, delta 6 desaturase (FADS6) is a key bifunctional enzyme desaturating linoleic acid or …

Frequent gene duplications in the genome incessantly supply new genetic materials for
functional innovation presumably driven by positive Darwinian selection. This mechanism in …

The biosynthesis of very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids involves an alternating
process of fatty acid desaturation and elongation catalyzed by complex series of enzymes …