Patent ID: 8551744

Claim:
A method for preparing a fatty acid composition, which comprises collecting a fatty acid composition from a cultured microorganism transformed with a recombinant vector carrying a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence shown in any one of (a) to (c) below: (a) a nucleotide sequence which encodes a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence with deletion, substitution or addition of one to twenty amino acids in the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 and having lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase activity; (b) a nucleotide sequence which consists of a nucleotide sequence sharing an identity of 95% or more with the nucleotide sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1 and which encodes a protein having lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase activity; or (c) a nucleotide sequence which encodes an amino acid sequence sharing an identity of 95% or more with the amino acid sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 2 and having lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase activity.