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1. Full Text Delta-8 desaturation activity varies among fatty acyl desaturases of teleost fish: High activity in delta-6 desaturases of marine species
by Monroig, Óscar and Li, Yuanyou and Tocher, Douglas R
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B, ISSN 1096-4959, 2011, Volume 159, Issue 4, pp. 206 - 213
The benefits of dietary fish and fish oil are derived from n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) that have beneficial effects in a range of... 
Delta-6 | Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis | Fatty acyl desaturase | Delta-8 | Teleost fish | TURBOT SCOPHTHALMUS-MAXIMUS | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | NUTRITIONAL REGULATION | FUNCTIONAL-CHARACTERIZATION | FRESH-WATER FISH | PHOSPHOLIPID CLASSES | ZOOLOGY | SPARUS-AURATA L | IN-VIVO | SALMON SALMO-SALAR | EICOSA-11,14-DIENOIC ACID | ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID | Aquatic Organisms - genetics | Animals | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Fishes | Humans | DNA, Complementary - genetics | Linoleoyl-CoA Desaturase - metabolism | Phylogeny | Linoleoyl-CoA Desaturase - isolation & purification | Aquatic Organisms - enzymology | Evolution, Molecular | Linoleoyl-CoA Desaturase - genetics
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2. Full Text Δ-6 Desaturase Substrate Competition: Dietary Linoleic Acid (18:2n-6) Has Only Trivial Effects on α-Linolenic Acid (18:3n-3) Bioconversion in the Teleost Rainbow Trout
by Emery, James A and Hermon, Karen and Hamid, Noor K. A and Donald, John A and Turchini, Giovanni M
PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, 02/2013, Volume 8, Issue 2, p. e57463
It is generally accepted that, in vertebrates, omega-3 (n-3) and omega-6 (n-6) poly-unsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) compete for Delta-6 desaturase enzyme in... 
FISH-OIL REPLACEMENT | HEPATOCYTES | ACYL DESATURASE | METABOLISM | PUFA | N-3 | BIOSYNTHESIS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | IN-VIVO | MURRAY COD | POLYUNSATURATED FATTY-ACIDS | Oncorhynchus mykiss - metabolism | alpha-Linolenic Acid - pharmacology | Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic - drug effects | Animals | Substrate Specificity - drug effects | Diet | Linoleoyl-CoA Desaturase - metabolism | Linoleic Acid - pharmacology | Oncorhynchus mykiss - growth & development | Feeding Behavior - drug effects | Linoleoyl-CoA Desaturase - genetics | Competition | Animal models | Fish oils | Polyunsaturated fatty acids | Trout | Lipids | Bioconversion | Metabolism | Desaturase | Fatty acids | Substrates | Linoleic acid | Vertebrates | Linolenic acid | Rodents | Oxidation | Aquaculture
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3. Full Text Dietary Fish Oil Supplements Increase Tissue n-3 Fatty Acid Composition and Expression of Delta-6 Desaturase and Elongase-2 in Jade Tiger Hybrid Abalone
by Mateos, Hintsa T and Lewandowski, Paul A and Su, Xiao Q
Lipids, ISSN 0024-4201, 8/2011, Volume 46, Issue 8, pp. 741 - 751
This study was conducted to investigate the effects of fish oil (FO) supplements on fatty acid composition and the expression of ∆6 desaturase and elongase 2... 
Neurochemistry | Abalone | Nutrition | n-3 Fatty acids | Gas–liquid chromatography | Elongase | Medical Biochemistry | Gene expression | Desaturase | Fish oil | Life Sciences | Medicinal Chemistry | Fatty acid composition | Lipidology | Gonad | Microbial Genetics and Genomics | Muscle | Digestive gland | n‐3 Fatty acids | Gas-liquid chromatography | RAINBOW-TROUT | ACYL DESATURASE | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | NUTRITIONAL-REQUIREMENTS | FUNCTIONAL-CHARACTERIZATION | GROWTH-PERFORMANCE | REPRODUCTIVE-PERFORMANCE | NUTRITION & DIETETICS | PALM OIL | HALIOTIS-DISCUS-HANNAI | SALMON SALMO-SALAR | LIPID-COMPOSITION | Acetyltransferases - metabolism | Fatty Acids, Omega-3 - metabolism | Fatty Acids, Omega-3 - chemistry | Linoleoyl-CoA Desaturase - metabolism | Mollusca - chemistry | Tissue Distribution | Animals | Diet | Fish Oils - metabolism | Fish Oils - administration & dosage | Mollusca - anatomy & histology | Dietary Supplements | Fish Oils - chemistry | Mollusca - enzymology | Physiological aspects | Usage | Liquid chromatography | Research | Fish oils
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4. Full Text Omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and aquaculture in perspective
by Tocher, Douglas R
Aquaculture, ISSN 0044-8486, 12/2015, Volume 449, pp. 94 - 107
In the 40 years since the essentiality of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in fish was first established by determining quantitative requirements for 18:3n −... 
Nutrition | Metabolism | Health | Fish oil | Essential fatty acids | Sustainability | DOCOSAHEXAENOIC-ACID | SEABREAM SPARUS-AURATA | PROSTATE-CANCER RISK | FRESH-WATER FISH | CELL LUNG-CANCER | FISHERIES | ACYL DELTA-6 DESATURASE | MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY | SALMON SALMO-SALAR | FISH-OIL INCREASES | TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS-MYKISS | ATLANTIC SALMON | Physiological aspects | Fish-culture | Unsaturated fatty acids | Trout | Aquaculture
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5. Full Text Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in chordates: Insights into the evolution of Fads and Elovl gene repertoire
by Castro, L. Filipe C and Tocher, Douglas R and Monroig, Oscar
Progress in Lipid Research, ISSN 0163-7827, 04/2016, Volume 62, pp. 25 - 40
Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) are major components of complex lipid molecules and are also involved in numerous critical biological... 
Elongation of very long-chain fatty acid protein | Evolution | Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids | Chordates | Front-end desaturase | PERMEABILITY BARRIER FUNCTION | CHLAMYS-NOBILIS REEVE | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | OCTOPUS-VULGARIS CUVIER | NUTRITIONAL REGULATION | FUNCTIONAL-CHARACTERIZATION | SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | NUTRITION & DIETETICS | STEAROYL-COA DESATURASE | ACYL DELTA-6 DESATURASE | DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID | HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION | Chordata - genetics | Gene Duplication | Fatty Acid Desaturases - genetics | Acetyltransferases - metabolism | Multigene Family | Fatty Acid Desaturases - metabolism | Humans | Substrate Specificity | Phylogeny | Acetyltransferases - genetics | Fatty Acids, Unsaturated - biosynthesis | Chordata - metabolism | Animals | Genome | Evolution, Molecular | Genetic research | Physiological aspects | Membrane lipids | Unsaturated fatty acids | Genes | Genomics | Enzymes | Synthesis | Amino acids | Essential fatty acids | Fatty acids
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6. Full Text Cloning and characterization of Delta 6/Delta 5 fatty acyl desaturase (Fad) gene promoter in the marine teleost Siganus canaliculatus
by Dong, YW and Zhao, JH and Chen, JL and Wang, SQ and Liu, Y and Zhang, QH and You, CH and Monroig, O and Tocher, DR and Li, YY
GENE, ISSN 0378-1119, 03/2018, Volume 647, pp. 174 - 180
The rabbitfish Siganus canaliculatus was the first marine teleost demonstrated to have the ability of biosynthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids... 
BASS DICENTRARCHUS-LABRAX | LC-PUFA biosynthesis | DELTA-6 DESATURASE | Transcriptional regulation mechanism | NUCLEAR RECEPTORS | Rabbitfish Siganus canaliculatus | NUTRITIONAL REGULATION | AMBIENT SALINITIES | FUNCTIONAL-CHARACTERIZATION | ACID BIOSYNTHESIS | Marine teleost | HNF4 alpha | ELEMENT | GENETICS & HEREDITY | NF-1 | Fatty acyl desaturase | SALMON SALMO-SALAR | EXPRESSION
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7. Full Text Capacity for eicosapentaenoic acid and arachidonic acid biosynthesis in silver barb (Barbonymus gonionotus): Functional characterisation of a Delta 6/Delta 8/Delta 5 Fads2 desaturase and Elov15 elongase
by Janaranjan, M and Mah, MQ and Kuah, MK and Fadhilah, N and Hing, SR and Han, WY and Shu-Chien, AC
AQUACULTURE, ISSN 0044-8486, 12/2018, Volume 497, pp. 469 - 486
The silver barb (Barbonymus gonionotus), a widely distributed cyprinid in Southeast Asia, has a reasonable deposition of the physiologically important omega-3... 
Fads2 | DELTA-6 DESATURASE | FATTY ACYL DESATURASE | Barbonymus gonionotus | NUTRITIONAL REGULATION | Biosynthesis | COMMON CARP | EURASIAN PERCH | FRESH-WATER FISH | MARINE FISH | FISHERIES | Elovl5 | NILE TILAPIA | MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY | MOLECULAR-CLONING | Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid | ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID
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8. Full Text The Front-end Desaturase: Structure, Function, Evolution and Biotechnological Use
by Meesapyodsuk, Dauenpen and Meesapyodsuk, Dauenpen and Qiu, Xiao and Qiu, Xiao
Lipids, ISSN 0024-4201, 3/2012, Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 227 - 237
Very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids such as arachidonic acid (ARA, 20:4n-6), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5n-3), docosapentaenoic acid (DPA, 22:5n-3)... 
Neurochemistry | Biotechnology | Nutrition | n-6 fatty acids | Medical Biochemistry | General area | n-3 fatty acids | Life Sciences | Medicinal Chemistry | Lipidology | Desaturases | Microbial Genetics and Genomics | Lipid biochemistry | Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) | n‐3 fatty acids | n‐6 fatty acids | N-6 fatty acids | N-3 fatty acids | ACYL-CARRIER-PROTEIN | DELTA-6 DESATURASE | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | TRANSGENIC PLANTS | GAMMA-LINOLENIC ACID | SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | OILSEED CROPS | CYTOCHROME B DOMAIN | BORAGE BORAGO-OFFICINALIS | NUTRITION & DIETETICS | POLYUNSATURATED FATTY-ACIDS | HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION | Animals | Docosahexaenoic Acids - chemistry | Fatty Acid Desaturases - metabolism | Humans | Fatty Acid Desaturases - chemistry | Structure-Activity Relationship | Catalysis | Phylogeny | Docosahexaenoic Acids - metabolism | Evolution, Molecular | Physiological aspects | Unsaturated fatty acids | Lipid research | Genetic aspects | Cytochrome b | Research
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9. Full Text Functional characterisation of a Fads2 fatty acyl desaturase with Delta 6/Delta 8 activity and an Elovl5 with C16, C18 and C20 elongase activity in the anadromous teleost meagre (Argyrosomus regius)
by Monroig, O and Tocher, DR and Hontoria, F and Navarro, JC
AQUACULTURE, ISSN 0044-8486, 11/2013, Volume 412, pp. 14 - 22
The meagre, Argyrosomus regius, is a carnivorous fish with great potential to diversify finfish aquaculture in the Mediterranean. However, currently nothing is... 
DELTA-6 DESATURASE | Elongase of very long-chain fatty acids | Polyunsaturated fatty acids | NUTRITIONAL REGULATION | Omega-3 | LINOLENIC ACID | Essential fatty acids | SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | ACID DESATURASE | FRESH-WATER | MARINE FISH | FISHERIES | Meagre | MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY | Fatty acyl desaturase | SALMON SALMO-SALAR | MOLECULAR-CLONING | ATLANTIC SALMON
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10. Full Text Regulation of FADS2 transcription by SREBP-1 and PPAR-α influences LC-PUFA biosynthesis in fish
by Dong, Xiaojing and Tan, Peng and Cai, Zuonan and Xu, Hanlin and Li, Jingqi and Ren, Wei and Xu, Houguo and Zuo, Rantao and Zhou, Jianfeng and Mai, Kangsen and Ai, Qinghui
Scientific Reports, ISSN 2045-2322, 01/2017, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 40024
The present study was conducted to explore the mechanisms leading to differences among fishes in the ability to biosynthesize long-chain polyunsaturated fatty... 
BASS DICENTRARCHUS-LABRAX | ACYL DELTA-6 DESATURASE | FATTY-ACID-COMPOSITION | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | STEARIDONIC ACID | TELEOST FISH | SALMON SALMO-SALAR | FUNCTIONAL-CHARACTERIZATION | ATLANTIC SALMON | SEA-BASS | MARINE FISH
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11. Full Text Characterization of the fatty acyl elongase (elovl) gene family, and hepatic elovl and delta-6 fatty acyl desaturase transcript expression and fatty acid responses to diets containing camelina oil in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)
by Xue, Xi and Feng, Charles Y and Hixson, Stefanie M and Johnstone, Kim and Anderson, Derek M and Parrish, Christopher C and Rise, Matthew L
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B, ISSN 1096-4959, 09/2014, Volume 175, Issue 1, pp. 9 - 22
For aquaculture to become sustainable, there is a need to substitute fish oil [FO, rich in ω3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) such as 20:5ω3... 
Fatty acyl elongase (elovl) | Atlantic cod | Delta-6 fatty acyl desaturase (fadsd6) | Camelina oil (CO) | Liver gene expression | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | NUTRITIONAL REGULATION | FUNCTIONAL-CHARACTERIZATION | FRESH-WATER | MARINE FISH | REPLACEMENT | ZOOLOGY | METABOLISM | CLONING | GROWTH | TELEOST FISH | FISH-OIL | Amino Acid Sequence | Acetyltransferases - metabolism | Gene Expression | Liver - enzymology | Brassicaceae - chemistry | Liver - metabolism | Molecular Sequence Data | Linoleoyl-CoA Desaturase - metabolism | Fatty Acids, Unsaturated - metabolism | Phylogeny | RNA, Messenger - metabolism | Acetyltransferases - genetics | Fatty Acids, Unsaturated - biosynthesis | Gadus morhua - growth & development | Animals | Diet | Gadus morhua - metabolism | Plant Oils | Genetic research | Physiological aspects | Chemical properties | RNA | Fatty acids | Genes
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