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Elovl6 - ELOVL fatty acid elongase 6 (house mouse)

Gene
Symbol
Dates
  • Create:
    2016-09-14
  • Modify:
    2025-01-29
Description
Enables acyltransferase activity, transferring groups other than amino-acyl groups. Involved in positive regulation of cold-induced thermogenesis. Acts upstream of or within fatty acid elongation. Located in endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Is expressed in several structures, including alimentary system; genitourinary system; nervous system; respiratory system; and sensory organ. Orthologous to human ELOVL6 (ELOVL fatty acid elongase 6).

1 Names and Identifiers

1.1 Synonyms

  • FAE
  • LCE
  • very long chain fatty acid elongase 6
  • 3-keto acyl-CoA synthase Elovl6
  • ELOVL FA elongase 6
  • ELOVL family member 6, elongation of long chain fatty acids
  • elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 6
  • fatty acyl-CoA elongase
  • long chain fatty acid elongase
  • long chain fatty acyl elongase
  • myelin-associated SUR4 protein
  • very long chain 3-ketoacyl-CoA synthase 6
  • very long chain 3-oxoacyl-CoA synthase 6

1.2 Other Identifiers

1.2.1 Ensembl ID

1.2.2 Alliance Gene ID

1.2.3 Bgee Gene ID

1.2.4 Enzyme Commission (EC) Number

1.2.5 MGI ID

1.2.6 VEuPathDB ID

1.2.7 Wikidata

3 Proteins

3.1 Protein Function

Catalyzes the first and rate-limiting reaction of the four reactions that constitute the long-chain fatty acids elongation cycle. This endoplasmic reticulum-bound enzymatic process allows the addition of 2 carbons to the chain of long- and very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) per cycle. Condensing enzyme that elongates fatty acids with 12, 14 and 16 carbons with higher activity toward C16:0 acyl-CoAs. Catalyzes the synthesis of unsaturated C16 long chain fatty acids and, to a lesser extent, C18:0 and those with low desaturation degree. May participate in the production of saturated and monounsaturated VLCFAs of different chain lengths that are involved in multiple biological processes as precursors of membrane lipids and lipid mediators.

3.2 Protein 3D Structures

3.2.1 AlphaFold Structures

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. Nature. 2021 Aug;596(7873):583-589. DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2. PMID:34265844; PMCID:PMC8371605

3.3 Protein Targets

4 Chemicals and Bioactivities

4.1 Tested Compounds

5 BioAssays

5.1 Small-Molecule BioAssays

5.2 RNAi BioAssays

6 Interactions and Pathways

6.1 Interactions

6.2 Pathways

7 Biochemical Reactions

8 Expression

9 Literature

9.1 Consolidated References

9.2 Gene-Chemical Co-Occurrences in Literature

9.3 Gene-Gene Co-Occurrences in Literature

9.4 Gene-Disease Co-Occurrences in Literature

10 Patents

10.1 Gene-Chemical Co-Occurrences in Patents

10.2 Gene-Gene Co-Occurrences in Patents

10.3 Gene-Disease Co-Occurrences in Patents

11 Classification

11.1 Gene Ontology: Biological Process

11.2 Gene Ontology: Cellular Component

11.3 Gene Ontology: Molecular Function

11.4 ChEMBL Target Tree

11.5 Enzyme Classification

12 Information Sources

  1. NCBI Gene
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  2. PubChem
  3. Alliance of Genome Resources
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  4. Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI)
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    https://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/copyright.shtml
  5. NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)
  6. STRING: functional protein association networks
  7. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Bgee
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    https://www.bgee.org/about/
  8. UniProt
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  9. VEuPathDB: The Eukaryotic Pathogen, Vector and Host Informatics Resource
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    https://veupathdb.org/veupathdb/app/static-content/about.html
  10. Wikidata
  11. ChEMBL
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  12. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics ENZYME
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    https://enzyme.expasy.org/enzyme.get
    Enzyme Classification
    https://enzyme.expasy.org/
  13. Gene Ontology (GO)
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  14. AlphaFold DB
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    https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/faq
  15. Rhea - annotated reactions database
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