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Why is it important?
We show here the importance of LC-PUFA biosynthesis in a freshwater carnivorous species. This is in spite of the predatory nature of snakehead. Therefore, we postulate that a LC-PUFA biosynthesis machinery complements intake of LC-PUFA from natural diets
Perspectives
Hopefully the work will lend to existing knowledge on the diversification of desaturase and elongase in teleosts.
Dr Alexander Chong
Universiti Sains Malaysia
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This page is a summary of: The capacity for long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis in a carnivorous vertebrate: Functional characterisation and nutritional regulation of a Fads2 fatty acyl desaturase with Δ4 activity and an Elovl5 elongase in striped snakehead (Channa s..., Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, March 2015, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2014.12.012.
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