The enzyme, characterized from cyanobacteria, introduces a cis double bond at carbon 6 of linoleoyl groups (18:2) attached to the sn-1 position of glycerolipids. The enzyme is a front-end desaturase, introducing the new double bond between a pre-existing double bond and the carboxyl-end of the fatty acid. It is nonspecific with respect to the polar head group of the glycerolipid.
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Cloned/COMMENTARY
ORGANISM
UNIPROT
LITERATURE
expressed as N-terminally fused and co-expressed protein with the cytochrome b5 domain from Mucor rouxii, in Escherichia coli DH5alpha cells and Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain DBY746
Kurdrid, P.; Subudhi, S.; Cheevadhanarak, S.; Tanticharoen, M.; Hongsthong, A.
Effect of two intermediate electron donors, NADPH and FADH(2), on Spirulina DELTA6-desaturase co-expressed with two different immediate electron donors, cytochrome b5 and ferredoxin, in Escherichia coli
Hongsthong, A.; Subudhi, S.; Sirijuntarat, M.; Cheevadhanarak, S.
Mutation study of conserved amino acid residues of Spirulina DELTA6-acyl-lipid desaturase showing involvement of histidine 313 in the regioselectivity of the enzyme
Hongsthong, A.; Subudhi, S.; Sirijuntarut, M.; Kurdrid, P.; Cheevadhanarak, S.; Tanticharoen, M.
Revealing the complementation of ferredoxin by cytochrome b5 in the Spirulina-DELTA6-desaturation reaction by N-terminal fusion and co-expression of the fungal-cytochrome b5 domain and Spirulina-DELTA6-acyl-lipid desaturase
Szalontai, B.; Nishiyama, Y.; Gombos, Z., Murata, N.
Membrane dynamics as seen by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in a cyanobacterium, Synechocystis PCC 6803. The effects of lipid unsaturation and the protein-to-lipid ratio
Targeted mutagenesis of acyl-lipid desaturases in Synechocystis: evidence for the important roles of polyunsaturated membrane lipids in growth, respiration and photosynthesis