Advanced Research on Plant Lipids

Sterol glucosides and ceramide glucosides: cloning of enzymes contributing to their biosynthesis.- Silver ion liquid-chromatographic mobility of plant diacylglycerols as a function of their composition and spatial arrangement.- Betaine lipids in marine algae.- Studies on the lipid molecular species and minor components of some Philippine seed and nut oils.- Antioxidant activity of some natural extracts in corn oil.- Study of the asymmetric distribution of saturated fatty acids in sunflower oil. Triacylglycerols.- Okra (Hibiscus esculentus L.) seed oil: characterization and potential use for high value products.- Cellular and developmental implications for carbon supply to fatty acid synthesis in seeds.- What is new about glycerol metabolism in plants?.- Genes and pathways involved in biosynthesis of eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids in bacteria.- Brassica KCS is capable of elongating polyunsaturated fatty acids.- Re-constitution of the glucose 6-phosphate translocator in liposomes: Inhibition of glucose 6-phosphate and inorganic phosphate exchange by oleoyl-coenzyme A.- Structural and functional analysis of the FAS1 gene encoding fatty acid synthase ?-subunit in methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha.- Characterizing KAS enzymes using the E. cou double mutant strain CY244.- Carbon metabolism in developing soybean embryos.- Expression of antisense acyl carrier protein-4 (LMI-ACP) reduces lipid content in Arabidopsis leaf tissue.- Biosynthesis of 9, 12, 15-octadecatrien-6-ynoic acid in the moss Dicranum scoparium.- The role of the plastidial glucose-6-phosphate transporter in the control of fatty acid biosynthesis of developing embryos of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.).- Comparative analysis of expressed sequence tags from developing seeds of Sesamumindicum and Arabidopsis thaliana.- Substitution of Phe282 with Ser in LEA B. napus c. v. westar restores FAE1 enzyme activity.- Presence of a palmitoyl-CoA delta 6-desaturase in the preputial gland of the mouse.- Linolenic acid accumulation in dragonhead.- Spirulina platensis mutants defective in ?-linolenic acid production: molecular characterization.- Oxygen availability regulates microsomal oleate desaturase (FAD2) in sunflower developing seeds by two different mechanisms.- Identification of a 05-fatty acid desaturase from Physcomitrella patens.- Low temperature and hypoxic signals regulating 03949 fatty acid desaturase gene transcription are converted into membrane fluidity signal in yeast.- Fatty acid desaturases from the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum: Reconstitution of polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic pathways in transgenic yeast.- Characterization of transgenic maize engineered with antisense FAD2 cDNA by chemometrical analysis of glycerolipids.- Biochemical studies on the production of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in Euglena and Thraustochytrium.- Nonthermal factors affecting production and unsaturation of alkenones in Emiliania huxleyi and Gephyrocapsa oceanica.- Determination of the X-ray crystallographic structure of E.coli butyryl-ACP.- Diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 of Arabidopsis thaliana.- Oleosins and plastid-lipid-associated proteins in Arabidopsis.- Membrane-bound sn-2-monoacylglycerol acyltransferase (MGAT) is involved in Diacylglycerol synthesis.- Cloning and expression of Vernonia and Euphorbia diacylglycerol acyltransferase cDNAs.- Reutilization of arachidonyl moieties of triacylglycerols in the microalga Parietochloris incisa following recovery from nitrogen starvation.- Lipid composition in yeast mutant lacking storage lipidssynthesis capacity.- Synthesis of chloroplast galactolipids in apicomplexan parasites (Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum).- Determination of the effects of temperatures on phosphatidylglycerol biosynthesis in thylakoid membranes by analysis of molecular species.- Modulation of lipid body size and protein profiles in the oleaginous fungus by changing nitrogen concentration in culture medium.- Cloning and characterisation of a phospholipid: diacylglycerol acyltransferase from Arabidopsis thaliana.- A multigene family of lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferases of Arabidopsis thaliana.- Kinetic analysis of microsomal sn-glycerol-3- phosphate acyltransferase from the developing seeds of sunflower and Mortierella alpin.- Isolation and characterization of disruptants for CTP: phosphorylcholine cytidylyltransferase isogenes in Arabidopsis.- The plastidial lyso-PC acyltransferase from Allium porrum leaves: Interaction with metal salts and partial purification.- Histochemical analysis of three MGD genes using promoter-GUS fusion system in Arabidopsis.- Oil biosynthesis in Mortierella alpina microsomal membranes.- Galactolipid synthesis coordinates with the expression of photosynthetic activity via redox cascade.- Changes in oil composition of two sunflower varieties induced by salt-stress.- Tapetosomes and elaioplasts in Brassica and Arabidopsis floral tapetum.- Cloning and gene expression of the 3-ketoacyl-CoA reductase in B. napus seeds.- Dissecting the maize epicuticular wax biosynthetic pathway via the characterization of an extensive collection of GLOSSY mutants.- Distribution of cerebroside in genus Saccharomyces and its closely related yeasts, and cloning of cerebroside metabolism-related genes.- Properties and physiological effects of plant cerebroside species as functional lipids.- Metabolic engineering of the mevalonate and non-mevalonate pathways in tomato.- Characterization of the molecular species of phytosterol fatty acyl esters in corn (maize).- Action of mevalonic acid-derived isoprenoids in Arabidopsis.- The study of the mechanism of cell elongation using an inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3methylglutaryl-CoA reductase.- Characterisation of enzymes involved in tocopherol biosynthesis.- Two novel types of Arabidopsis phospholipase D.- Functional analysis of Arabidopsis lipase genes.- Transcriptional activation of jasmonate biosynthesis enzymes is not reflected at protein level.- Membrane localization of Arabidopsis acyl-CoA binding protein ACBP2.- Shift in fatty acid and oxylipin pattern of tomato leaves following overexpression of the allene oxide cyclase.- Reaction characterization of phospholipase A2 on hydrolysis of phospholipid in W/O microemulsion.- Molecular characterization of rice ?-oxygenase: ?-comparison with mammalian prostaglandin H synthases.- The lipoxygenase pathway in mycorrhizal roots of Medicago truncatula.- Purification and immunological properties of galactolipase from Phaseolus vulgaris leaves.- Hydrolysis behavior of triglycerides by Rhizopus delemar lipase in reverse micellar organic solvents.- Hydroperoxide lyase and leaf aldehyde formation can be greatly increased in leaves.- DAD1-like lipase (DLL) genes in Arabidopsis thaliana: Their expression profiles and physiological significances.- Peroxisomal acyl-CoA thioesterases from Arabidopsis.- Identification and characterization of a binding protein for N-acylethanolamines in membranes of tobacco cells.- Lipid transfer proteins: a genomic approach to establish their suggested roles in lipid trafficking and signaling.- Rapid and slow response reactionsof plants on effect of antioxidant ambiol.- Localization of pollen tube NpCDPK7 protein in generative cell membrane mediated by amino terminal myristoylation.- Gene-engineered rigidification of membrane lipids enhances the cold inducibility of gene expression in Synechocystis.- Monitoring of 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (OPDA)-induced expression changes in Arabidopsis by cDNA macroarray.- Characterization of light-responding activation of phospholipase D in suspension-cultured photoautotrophic soybean (SB-P) cells.- Salicylic acid and aromatic monoamines induce generation of active oxygen species leading to increase in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration in tobacco suspension culture.- A novel glycolipid in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 cells: structural characteristics.- The mechanism of biosynthesis and the physiological function of phosphatidylcholine in Arabidopsis during cold acclimation.- Involvement of membrane lipid fluidity in regulation of molecular mechanism of the xanthophyll cycle.- Sulphoquinovosyldiacylglycerol and adaptation syndrome.- Plastoquinol and other natural membrane prenyllipids may form pseudocyclic electron transport by scavenging superoxide generated in photosystem I.- Fluorescence anisotropy of plant membrane prenyllipids as a tool in studies of their localization and mobility in model membranes.- The role of betaine lipids in adaptation of lichen Peltigera aphthosa to long-term dehydration.- A study of the physiological function of phosphatidylethanolamine in Arabidopsis.- Glycolipid fatty acids while drought action.- Seasonal changes in thermotropic behavior of phospho- and glycolipids from Laminaria japonica.- Cyanobacterial lipid composition with regard to the regulatory role of glucose.- Are galactolipids engaged in the molecular mechanism of the xanthophyll cycle?.- Lipid synthesis catalyzed by lipase immobilized in biocompatible microemulsion-based organogel systems.- Production of nutraceutical fatty acids in oilseed crops.- Application of hpRNA-mediated gene silencing techniques to modification of fatty acid composition.- Targeting gene expression in mesocarp and kernel of the oil palm fruits.- Transgenic oil palm: where are we?.- Genetic manipulation of fatty acids in oil palm using biolistics: strategies to determine the most efficient target tissues.- Endogenic and exogenic interaction of microalgae lipids with surfactants in water environment.- Production of hydroxy fatty acids in Arabidopsis thaliana.- Author Index.