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At the International Meeting on Plant Lipids, Structure Function and Gene Technology in Paris, CGNE reported purification of an enzyme that governs the position of fatty acids within plant oil molecules.

Manipulation of the lysophosphatidyl acyltransferase (LPAAT) enzyme will allow tailoring of the triglyceride molecules in plant oils to achieve greater than 70 percent composition of each fatty acid type. ...