Abstract:
:The Delta12 desaturase represents a diverse gene family in plants and is responsible for conversion of oleic acid (18:1) to linoleic acid (18:2). Several members of this family are known from plants like Arabidopsis and Soybean. Using primers from conserved C- and N-terminal regions, we have cloned a novel Delta12 desaturase gene amplified from flax genomic DNA, denoted as LuFAD2-2. This intron-less gene is 1,149-base pair long encoding 382 amino acids-putative membrane-bound Delta12 desaturase protein. Sequence comparisons show that the novel sequence has 85% similarity with previously reported flax Delta12 desaturase at amino acid level and shows typical features of membrane-bound desaturase such as three conserved histidine boxes along with four membrane-spanning regions that are universally present among plant desaturases. The signature amino acid sequence 'YNNKL' was also found to be present at the N terminus of the protein, which is necessary and sufficient for ER localization of enzyme. Neighbor-Joining tree generated from the sequence alignment grouped LuFAD2-2 among the other FAD2 sequences from Ricinus, Hevea, Jatropha, and Vernicia. When LuFAD2-2 and LuFAD2 were expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, they could convert the oleic acid to linoleic acid, with an average conversion rate of 5.25 and 8.85%, respectively. However, exogenously supplied linoleic acid was feebly converted to linolenic acid suggesting that LuFAD2-2 encodes a functional FAD2 enzyme and has substrate specificity similar to LuFAD2.
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Mol Biotechnoljournal_title
Molecular biotechnologyauthors
Khadake RM,Ranjekar PK,Harsulkar AMdoi
10.1007/s12033-009-9150-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-06-01 00:00:00pages
168-74issue
2eissn
1073-6085issn
1559-0305journal_volume
42pub_type
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