Fig 7.
Medium-chain, branched and aromatic alcohol selectivity of different WS/DGAT enzymes. Shown are the percentages of different wax esters formed when specific concentrations of three different branched (isoamyl alcohol), medium (hexanol), and aromatic alcohols were combined with 100 nmol of palmitoyl-CoA (C16-CoA). Assays were run for 20 min after the addition of each enzyme, and then the wax ester products were analyzed as described in Materials and Methods. The area of each peak was quantified as a percentage of the total of all wax esters produced.