S-Adenosyl-l-methionine (AdoMet or SAM) is a substrate in numerous enzyme-catalyzed
reactions. It not only provides methyl groups in many biological methylations, but also acts …

Polyacetylenic natural products are a substantial class of often unstable compounds
containing a unique carbon–carbon triple bond functionality, that are intriguing for their wide …

Industrial chemicals and materials are currently derived mainly from fossil‐based raw
materials, which are declining in availability, increasing in price and are a major source of …

Fatty acid desaturation of membrane lipids is a strategy for plants to survive chilling or
freezing temperature. To further characterize enzymes involved in this stress response …

Mycolic acids and structures attached to them constitute a major part of the protective
envelope of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and for this reason, their role in tuberculosis …

Society has come to rely heavily on mineral oil for both energy and petrochemical needs.
Plant lipids are uniquely suited to serve as a renewable source of high‐value fatty acids for …

During postgerminative seedling establishment, reserves stored during seed filling are
mobilized to provide energy and carbon for the growing seedling until autotrophic growth is …

Covering: 1958 to September 2003 Desaturation (O2-dependent dehydrogenation) of long
chain fatty acyl derivatives is a ubiquitous biotransformation which generates a wide variety …

In many tissues, stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) catalyzes the biosynthesis of
monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAS),(ie, palmitoleate and oleate) from their saturated fatty …

The emergence of 'omics' technologies (ie genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.) have
revealed new avenues for exploring plant metabolism through data-rich experimentation …