Description
Product Characteristics:
Fatty acid elongase specific to C12-C16 saturated and monoinsaturated fatty acids.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm, Cell membrane
Synonyms: 3-keto acyl-CoA synthase ELOVL6, Elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 6, ELOV6_HUMAN, ELOVL family member 6, elongation of long chain fatty acids FEN1/Elo2, SUR4/Elo3 like, yeast, ELOVL fatty acid elongase 6, ELOVL6, FACE, FAE, Fatty acid elongase 2, Fatty acyl CoA elongase, Fatty acyl-CoA elongase, FLJ23378, hELO2, LCE, Long chain fatty acyl elongase, Long-chain fatty-acyl elongase, MGC5487, Myelin associated SUR4 protein.
Target Information: Fatty acid elongases (EC 6.2.1.3), such as ELOVL6, use malonyl-CoA as a 2-carbon donor in the first and rate-limiting step of fatty acid elongation (Moon et al., 2001 [PubMed 11567032]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008]