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Essential Role of Acyl-ACP Synthetase in Acclimation of the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus Strain PCC 7942 to High-Light Conditions.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Aug 2015
Takatani Nobuyuki, Use Kazuhide, Kato Akihiro, Ikeda Kazutaka, Kojima Kouji, Aichi Makiko, Maeda Shin-Ichi, Omata Tatsuo
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Most organisms capable of oxygenic photosynthesis have an aas gene encoding an acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetase (Aas), which activates free fatty acids (FFAs) via esterification to acyl carrier protein. Cyanobacterial aas mutants are often used for studies aimed at photosynthetic production of biofuels because the mutation leads to intracellular accumulation of FFAs and their secretion into the external...
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