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- Title
Recruiting a new substrate for triacylglycerol synthesis in plants: the monoacylglycerol acyltransferase pathway.
- Authors
Petrie, James R; Vanhercke, Thomas; Shrestha, Pushkar; El Tahchy, Anna; White, Adam; Zhou, Xue-Rong; Liu, Qing; Mansour, Maged P; Nichols, Peter D; Singh, Surinder P
- Abstract
Monoacylglycerol acyltransferases (MGATs) are predominantly associated with lipid absorption and resynthesis in the animal intestine where they catalyse the first step in the monoacylglycerol (MAG) pathway by acylating MAG to form diacylglycerol (DAG). Typical plant triacylglycerol (TAG) biosynthesis routes such as the Kennedy pathway do not include an MGAT step. Rather, DAG and TAG are synthesised de novo from glycerol-3-phosphate (G-3-P) by a series of three subsequent acylation reactions although a complex interplay with membrane lipids exists.
- Publication
PloS one, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 4, pe35214
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0035214