MarpolBase - MpFAE3, a beta-ketoacyl-CoA synthase gene in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L., is preferentially involved in elongation of palmitic acid to stearic acid.

MpFAE3, a beta-ketoacyl-CoA synthase gene in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L., is preferentially involved in elongation of palmitic acid to stearic acid.

Kajikawa M, Yamato KT, Kanamaru H, Sakuradani E, Shimizu S, Fukuzawa H, Sakai Y, Ohyama K. · 2003 · Biosci Biotechnol Biochem research

Gene ID	Name	Evidence / Role	Function (this paper)
Mp2g20220	MpFAE3	experimental subject	beta-ketoacyl-CoA synthase (KCS) gene; overexpression in Marchantia and yeast showed MpFAE3 preferentially elongates palmitic acid (16:0) to stearic acid (18:0), with further elongation to 20:0/22:0.
Mp1g06080	MpFAE1	experimental comparator	A third Marchantia beta-ketoacyl-CoA synthase (KCS) gene (GenBank AY308831, Yamaoka et al.), compared with MpFAE3 at the amino-acid level. Its overexpression in M. polymorpha did not alter fatty-acid composition or morphology, unlike MpFAE2/MpFAE3. NOTE: the curated table listed MpFAE1 under PMID12723610, but MpFAE1 is actually named in THIS paper (12951498); 12723610 contains no MpFAE1 (its 'FAE1' refers to Arabidopsis FAE1).
Mp2g20240	MpFAE2	citation comparator	The sister KCS gene MpFAE2 (functionally characterized in the companion paper) is used here as a sequence/functional comparator for MpFAE3.