Abstract
accumulated in the leaves, indicating that the cDNA encoded A homologue of the FAD2 microsomal D12-fatty acid desatur- a microsomal D6-fatty acid desaturase (Sayanova et al., ase was isolated from borage (Borago officinalis), a species 1997). This D6-fatty acid desaturase was unlike any previnoted for the synthesis of unusual fatty acids. Expression of ously characterized higher plant microsomal desaturases, due the borage FAD2 transcript was correlated with the levels of to the presence of an N-terminal extension of 100 amino linoleic acid, and expression of this FAD2 homologue was acids, which showed homology to the electron transport highest in non-photosynthetic tissues. chain protein cytochrome b 5 (Napier et al., 1997). The presence of this N-terminal extension has subsequently been
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