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Manipulating fatty-acid profile at unit chain-length resolution in the model industrial oleaginous microalgae

Qintao Wang1, Yanbin Feng2, Yandu Lu1

  • 1Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Shandong Laboratory of Energy Genetics and Shandong Energy Institute, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China; Laboratory of Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory of Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Metabolic Engineering
|April 6, 2021
PubMed

Keywords:
Acyl-acyl carrier protein thioesteraseBiofuelsFatty acidsIndustrial microalgaeNannochloropsis

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