Table 1.

Comparison of acyl acceptor specificities of different wax ester synthases using palmitoyl coenzyme A as the acyl donor

Acyl acceptor	Wax ester synthase activity (pmol/mg protein/min)
	CB0	CB1	CB2	CB3	CB4	CB5
Ethanol	0.67 ± 0.15	4.6 ± 0.55	8.1 ± 1.87	2.7 ± 0.37	3.8 ± 0.51	5.9 ± 0.83
Butanol	0.42 ± 0.21	10.8 ± 1.60	14.6 ± 1.75	6.8 ± 0.82	3.5 ± 0.53	4.2 ± 0.46
1-hexanol	0.72 ± 0.20	17.3 ± 2.04	33.8 ± 3.77	16.1 ± 2.29	10.2 ± 1. 59	18.7 ± 2.19
1-octanol	0.83 ± 0.19	23.0 ± 2.39	45.7 ± 4.51	32.3 ± 3.84	22.3 ± 2.44	17.7 ± 1.67
1-decanol	0.75 ± 0.21	19.7 ± 3.11	41.1 ± 4.13	37.3 ± 3.90	33.5 ± 2.22	27.5 ± 2.50
1-dodecanol	0.78 ± 0.17	31.8 ± 3.48	48.4 ± 4.56	36.7 ± 3.78	44.2 ± 3.07	42.8 ± 3.11
1-tetradecanol	0.81 ± 0.27	45.0 ± 4.72	49.7 ± 4.38	33.5 ± 3.66	35.1 ± 2.87	36.5 ± 3.03
1-hexadecanol	0.90 ± 0.20	41.6 ± 2.21	49.0 ± 3.65	28.9 ± 3.29	35.5 ± 2.91	39.1 ± 2.72
1-octadecanol	0.77 ± 0.21	43.6 ± 2.21	40.1 ± 3.77	30.9 ± 3.12	39.5 ± 2.64	38.3 ± 2.32

Values are the mean of at least three independent assays ± standard deviation.