Systems Biology of Lipid Body Formation in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 578.7 Organisms characteristic of specific kinds of environments
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 10 p. : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 264416
• Chủ đề: 1. 09 biomass fuels; 2. 59 basic biological sciences; 3. Algae; 4. Biodiesel; 5. Triacylglyceride

Tóm tắt

 The project aimed to deepen our understanding of alga triacylglycerol (TAG) production to undergird explorations of using algal TAG as a source of biodiesel fuel. Our published contributions included the following: 1) Development of a rapid assay for TAG in algal cultures which was widely distributed to the algal community. 2) A comprehensive transcriptome analysis of the development of the ultra-high-TAG ?obese? phenotype In <
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 . 3) A comprehensive biochemical and ultrastructural analysis of the cell wall of Nannochloropsis gaditana, whose walls render it both growth-hardy and difficult to rupture for TAG recovery. A manuscript in preparation considers the autophagy response in <
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  and its entrance into stationary phase, both having an impact on TAG production.