Randall Weselake

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Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Ag, Food & Nutri Sci Dept

Email: weselake@ualberta.ca

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A small phospholipase A2-α from castor catalyzes removal of hydroxy fatty acids from phosphatidylcholine in transgenic Arabidopsis seeds

Bayon S, Chen G, Weselake RJ, Browse J

Plant Physiol. 2015 January; 167

Bypassing the D6-desaturase enzyme and directly providing n-3 and n-6 PUFA pathway intermediates reduces the survival of two human breast cancer cell lines. Eur J Lipid Sci Technol

Yu H-M, Newell M, Subedi K, Weselake RJ, Mazurak V, Field CJ

2015 January;

Engineering increased triacylglycerol accumulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a modified type-1 plant diacylglycerol acyltransferase

Greer MS, Truksa M, Deng Wei, Lung S-C, Chen G, Weselake RJ

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2015 January; 99

Genome-wide analysis of PHOSPHOLIPID: DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE (PDAT) Genes in plants reveals the eudicot-wide gene expansion and altered selective pressures acting on core eudicot PDAT paralogs

Pan X, Peng F, Weselake RJ

Plant Physiol. 2015 January; 167

Heterologous expression of flax PHOSPHOTIDYLCHOLINE:DIACYLGLYCEROL CHOLINE- PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (PDCTs) increases polyunsaturated fatty acid content in yeast and Arabidopsis seeds

Wickramarathna AD, Siloto RMP, Mietkiewska E, Singer SD, Pan X, Weselake RJ

BMC Biotechnol. 2015 January; 15

In vivo and in vitro evidence for biochemical coupling of reactions catalyzed by lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase and diacyglycerol acyltransferase

Pan X, Chen G, Kazachkov M, Greer MS, Caldo KM, Zou J, Weselake RJ

J Biol Chem. 2015 January; 290

Purification and properties of recombinant Brassica napus diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1

Caldo KMP, Greer MS, Chen G, Lemieux MJ, Weselake RJ

FEBS Lett. 2015 January; 589

Stearidonic acid-enriched flax oil reduces the growth of human breast cancer in vitro and in vivo

Subedi K, Yu H-M, Weselake RJ, Meesapyodsuk D, Qiu X, Shah S, Field CJ

Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2015 January; 149

Tailoring lipid synthesis in oil crops

Woodfield HK, Harwood JL, Weselake RJ

Inform. 2015 January; 26

Production of Brassica napus low-molecular mass acyl-Coenzyme A-binding protein in Arabidopsis alters the acyl-Coenzyme A pool and acyl composition of oil in seeds

Yurchenko Y, Singer SD, Nykiforuk CL, Gidda S, Mullen RT, Moloney MM, Weselake RJ

Plant Physiol. 2014 January; 165