Showing papers by "John L. Harwood published in 2001"

Use of control analysis to study the regulation of plant lipid biosynthesis.

Abstract: Control analysis is a powerful method to quantify the regulation of metabolic pathways. We have applied it to lipid biosynthesis for the first time by using model tissue culture systems from the important oil crops, olive ( Olea europaea L.) and oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). By the use of top-down control analysis, fatty acid biosynthesis has been shown to exert more control than lipid assembly under different experimental conditions. However, both parts of the lipid biosynthetic pathway are important, so that attempts to alter oil yield by manipulating the activity of a single enzyme step are very unlikely to produce significant increases.

Compounds and compositions for use in inhibiting endoparasitic fatty acid biosynthesis

Abstract: Use of at least one compound, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, as an inhibitor of at least one β-ketoacyl acyl carrier protein synthase operable in the fatty acid biosynthesis of endoparasites, which compound is of the general formula (I) where R1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, (cyano)alkylene, alkenyl, alkynyl, (alkoxy)alkylene, (alkoxy)alkenylene, (alkoxy)alkynylene, cycloalkyl, (cycloalkyl)alkylene, (cycloalkyl)alkenylene, (cycloalkyl)alkynylene, (heterocycle)alkylene, (heterocycle)alkenylene, (heterocycle)alkynylene, aryl, (aryl)alkylene, (aryl)alkenylene, (aryl)alkynylene, (arylcarbonylarylene)alkylene, (arylcarbonylarylene)alkenylene and (arylcarbonylarylene)alkynylene; R2 is alkyl or cycloalkyl; R3 is alkyl or cycloalkyl; and R4 is hydrogen or alkyl; including racemic mixtures and enantiomers of said compound when the latter is chiral, but excluding the racemic mixture of a chiral compound of formula (I) in which R1 is CH2=CH-C(CH3)=CH-, R2 is methyl, R3 is methyl and R4 is hydrogen.