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John L. Harwood

Researcher at Cardiff University

Publications -  433
Citations -  17390

John L. Harwood is an academic researcher from Cardiff University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lipid metabolism & Fatty acid. The author has an hindex of 60, co-authored 420 publications receiving 16081 citations. Previous affiliations of John L. Harwood include John L. Scott & Spanish National Research Council.

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The cloning and overexpression of E coli acyl carrier protein (ACP)

TL;DR: E coli ACP can be used as a substitute for plant ACP in many assays for plant fatty acid synthetase activity; indeed it sometimes proves more active in vitro than the native plantACP as mentioned in this paper, which is useful because such large quantities of plant material are required to isolate relatively small amounts of protein.
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Effect of copper and lead on lipid metabolism in bryophytes and lichens.

TL;DR: The effects of lead and copper on lipid metabolism have been studied in two moss species, Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus and Dicranum scoparium, and also in the lichen Peltigera horizontalis with a cyanobacterial Nostoc photobiont.
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Influence of the greenhouse effect on the lipid composition of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seeds

TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined any changes in wheat grain acyl lipids as a result of alterations in environmental growth conditions and found that elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels enhanced the accumulation of grain acyl lipids, whereas elevated temperature had the opposite effect.
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Differential effects of interferon-gamma and -beta on fatty acid turnover, lipid bilayer fluidity and TNF-alpha release in murine macrophage J774.2 cells.

TL;DR: IFN-gamma might act on the enzymes controlling the labelling of the sn2 position of phospholipids but not the sn1 position (stearic acid), and this increases the polyunsaturated fatty acid content of macrophage membranes, and this increase in polyunsaturation is reflected in the increased membrane fluidity.