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According to the current concept, plant and animal desaturase systems include flavoprotein, Fe-containing protein and desaturase. Thus, oleate desaturase of potato microsomes is assumed to consist sequentially of NADH-ferricyanide reductase, cytochrome b5 and desaturase |1|. At present the involvement of photosynthetic electron transport components in the linoleate desaturation remains unknown. To study this problem the effect of 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU), the classical inhibitor of photosynthetic electron transport, on oleate and linoleate desaturation was investigated.
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Gafarova, T.E. (1989). Some Aspects of the Role of Photosynthetic Electron Transport Components in Chloroplast Fatty Acid Desaturation. In: Biacs, P.A., Gruiz, K., Kremmer, T. (eds) Biological Role of Plant Lipids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1303-8_40
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