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Single cell oil production by Mortierella alpina.
Journal of biotechnology - 12 Oct 2009
Sakuradani Eiji, Shimizu Sakayu
Abstract excerpt
A filamentous fungus, Mortierella alpina 1S-4, was obtained, through extensive screening, as an potential producer of triacylglycerol containing C20 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) such as arachidonic acid. With this discovery as a starting point, we conducted employing methods from metabolic engineering and molecular biology for controlling cultures and breeding mutant strains. These parental and mutant...
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