MOSS GENES FROM PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS CODING PROTEINS INVOLVED IN THE SYNTHESIS OF POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS AND LIPIDS

摘要

Isolated nucleic acid molecules, designated LMRP nucleic acid molecules, which encode novel LMRPs from e.g. Physcomitrella patens are described. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing LMRP nucleic acid molecules, and host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced. The invention still further provides isolated LMRPs, mutated LMRPs, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and methods for the improvement of production of a desired compound from transformed cells, organisms or plants based on genetic engineering of LMRP genes in these organisms.