摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a desaturase useful for production of a lipid having double bond, fatty acid and its derivative, and to provide a gene encoding the same, a recombinant vector containing the gene and microorganisms transformed by the recombinant vector. <P>SOLUTION: The desaturase gene comprising DNA of the following (a) or (b): (a) DNA encoding the protein comprising amino acid sequences expressed by the sequence No 1 or 2, (b) DNA encoding the protein having desaturase activity comprising amino acid sequences having one or two amino acids deleted, substituted or added in the amino acid sequences of the (a). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |