Phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase: an enzyme that catalyzes the acyl-CoA-independent formation of triacylglycerol in yeast and plants.

By A. Dahlqvist, U. Stahl, M. Lenman, A. Banaś, Michael Lee, L. Sandager, H. Ronne, S. Stymne. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2000

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Subfields: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology

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Citations in the corpus

• Plant triacylglycerols as feedstocks for the production of biofuels. (2008, background): “DAG or by the action of a phospholipid diacylglycerol acyltransferase (PDAT) that uses PC as an acyl donor to convert DAG to TAG (Dahlqvist et al., 2000).”
• Yarrowia lipolytica as a model for bio-oil production. (2009, background): “Unlike its human ortholog, yeast Lro1p cannot synthesize sterols and functions as a phospholipid: diacyl glycerol acyl transferase (PDAT) [26].”
• Transcriptome and Gene Expression Analysis of an Oleaginous Diatom Under Different Salinity Conditions (2013, positive): “PDAT is involved in an acyl-CoA-independent mechanism of TAG synthesis in some plants and yeast [42], and its homologs have been identified in the green algae C.”
• Acyl-Lipid Metabolism (2013, background): “PDAT activity has been detected in yeast and developing oil seeds (Dahlqvist et al., 2000) and the gene encoding such activity identified in Arabidopsis (Stahl et al.”