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Fig. 5 | Biotechnology for Biofuels

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From: The oleaginous astaxanthin-producing alga Chromochloris zofingiensis: potential from production to an emerging model for studying lipid metabolism and carotenogenesis

Fig. 5

Lipid metabolic pathways in C. zofingiensis. ACCase, acetyl-CoA carboxylase; AdoMet, S-adenosylmethionine; AOX, acyl-CoA oxidase; BAT, betaine lipid synthase; CDS, phosphatidate cytidylyltransferase; CCT, choline-phosphate cytidylyltransferase; CHK, choline kinase; Cho, Choline; DAG, diacylglycerol; DGAT, Diacylglycerol acyltransferase; DGD, digalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase; DGDG, digalactosyl diacylglycerol; ECH, enoyl-CoA hydratase; ECT, CDP-Ethanolamine synthase; ENR, enoyl-ACP reductase; EPT/CPT, ethanolaminephosphotransferase/cholinephosphotransferase; Eth, Ethanolamine; ETK, ethanolamine kinase; GALE, UDP-galactose 4-epimerase; FAD, fatty acid desaturase; FAT, acyl-ACP thioesterase; G3P, glycerol-3-phosphate; GPAT, glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase; HAD, 3-ketoacyl-ACP dehydratase; HCD, 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase; KAR, 3-ketoacyl-ACP reductase; KAS, 3-ketoacyl-ACP synthase; KATO, 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase; LACS, long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase; LPA, lysophosphatidic acid; LPAAT, lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase; MCT, malonyl-CoA:acyl carrier protein transacylase; Met, methionine; MIPS, myo-inositol-1-phosphate synthase; MGD, monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase; MGDG, monogalactosyl diacylglycerol; MLDP, major lipid droplet protein; PA, phosphatidic acid; PAP, phosphatidate phosphatase; PC, phosphatidylcholine; PDAT, phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase; PE, phosphatidylethanolamine; PEAMT, phosphoethanolamine methyltransferase; PG, phosphatidylglycerol; PGP, phosphatidylglycerophosphatase; PGPS, phosphatidylglycerophosphate synthase; PI, phosphatidylinositol; PIS, phosphatidylinositol synthase; PGD1, Plastid Galactoglycerolipid Degradation1; SAD, stearoyl-ACP desaturase; SAS, S-adenosylmethionine synthase; SQDG, sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol; SDP1, Sugar-Dependent1 TAG lipase; TAG, triacyglycerol; UGPase, UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase

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