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Cessation of polyunsaturated fatty acid formation in four selected filamentous fungi when grown on plant oils
Author(s) -
Kendrick Andrew,
Ratledge Colin
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02523914
Subject(s) - mucor circinelloides , polyunsaturated fatty acid , fatty acid , food science , chemistry , linseed oil , biochemistry , mucor , botany , biology , penicillium
Four fungi, Conidiobolus nanodes, Entomophthora exitalis, Mortierella isabellina , and Mucor circinelloides , were grown on various oils (triolein, sesame, safflower, linseed, and oil from M. isabellina ) and produced lipids in which the fatty acids were predominantly the same as those of the original staring substrate. Only in the first two cases was there evidence of a small amount of chain elongation and of fatty acid desaturation taking place. The extent of this was only about 10% of that seen in glucose‐grown cells. The apparent repression of the fatty acid desaturases and elongases was not reversed by growing cells on glucose and oils as mixed substrates—the fatty acid profiles were the same as when the fungi had grown in oils alone. Neither was the cessation of polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis due to the presence of nonoil components (NOC) in the oil. Only the NOC from sesame oil affected one single conversion, that of 20∶3n‐3 to 20∶4n–6. We conclude that fatty acid desaturase and elongase systems are repressed either partially or completely in a filamentous fungi grown on triacylglycerol oils.