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SUBMITTER: Uchida H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4382194 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20150401 4
The B race of the green microalga Botryococcus braunii produces triterpene hydrocarbons, botryococcenes and methylsqualenes that can be processed into jet fuels with high heating values. In this alga, squalene is also converted into membrane sterols after 2,3-epoxidation. In the present study, cDNA clones of two distinct squalene epoxidases (BbSQE-I and -II) were isolated. Predicted amino acid sequences encoded on these genes are 45% identical with each other. Introduction of BbSQE-I or -II into ...[more]