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Improvement of arachidonic acid production by mutants with lower n-3 desaturation activity derived from Mortierella alpina.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology - 1 Dec 2004
Sakuradani Eiji, Hirano Yuriko, Kamada Nozomu, Nojiri Masutoshi, Ogawa Jun, Shimizu Sakayu
Abstract excerpt
Five mutants were obtained, Y11, Y135, Y164, Y180 and Y61, capable of accumulating higher amounts of arachidonic acid (AA) than Mortierella alpina 1S-4, an industrial strain for the production of AA-rich triacylglycerol (TG). This is thought to be due to low or no activity of n-3 desaturation with conversion of AA to eicosapentaenoic acid, which functions at a cultural temperature below 20 degrees C. In...
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