Improvement of Neutral Lipid and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biosynthesis by Overexpressing a Type 2 Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase in Marine Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neutral lipid accumulation in diatom following nitrogen deprivation

(2013) Zhi-Kai Yang et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Expression of a type 2 diacylglycerol acyltransferase fromThalassiosira pseudonanain yeast leads to incorporation of docosahexaenoic acid β-oxidation intermediates into triacylglycerol

(2013) Jingyu Xu et al.   FEBS Journal

Identification and characterization of PtDGAT2B, an acyltransferase of the DGAT2 acyl-Coenzyme A: Diacylglycerol acyltransferase family in the diatomPhaeodactylum tricornutum

(2013) Yangmin Gong et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Transformation of diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum by electroporation and establishment of inducible selection marker

(2012) Ying-Fang Niu et al.   BIOTECHNIQUES

Functional analysis of three type-2 DGAT homologue genes for triacylglycerol production in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2012) M. La Russa et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

A look at diacylglycerol acyltransferases (DGATs) in algae

(2012) Jit Ern Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Cloning and molecular characterization of a novel acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1-like gene (PtDGAT1) from the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

(2011) Freddy Guihéneuf et al.   FEBS Journal

Expression of Fungal diacylglycerol acyltransferase2 Genes to Increase Kernel Oil in Maize

(2011) J. Oakes et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Proteomic profiling of oil bodies isolated from the unicellular green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: With focus on proteins involved in lipid metabolism

(2011) Hoa M. Nguyen et al.   PROTEOMICS

New biofuel questions

(2010) Nigel Williams   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genetic Engineering of Algae for Enhanced Biofuel Production

(2010) Randor Radakovits et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Genetic engineering of fatty acid chain length in Phaeodactylum tricornutum

(2010) Randor Radakovits et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Identification and characterization of an acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 (DGAT2) gene from the microalga O. tauri

(2010) Martin Wagner et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

RNA Interference Silencing of a Major Lipid Droplet Protein Affects Lipid Droplet Size inChlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2009) Eric R. Moellering et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Tobacco as a production platform for biofuel: overexpression ofArabidopsis DGATandLEC2genes increases accumulation and shifts the composition of lipids in green biomass

(2009) Vyacheslav Andrianov et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Cloning and characterization of an acyl-CoA-dependentdiacylglycerol acyltransferase 1(DGAT1) gene fromTropaeolum majus, and a study of the functional motifs of the DGAT protein using site-directed mutagenesis to modify enzyme activity and oil content

(2008) Jingyu Xu et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Effects of the herbicide bentazon on growth and photosystem II maximum quantum yield of the marine diatom Skeletonema costatum

(2007) R.S. Macedo et al.   TOXICOLOGY IN VITRO