• Product name

  ELOVL6/LCE peptide

• Animal free

  No

• Nature

  Synthetic

• Alternative names

  • 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

  see all

• Function

  Condensing enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids. Highest activity toward C16:0 acyl-CoAs.

• Tissue specificity

  Ubiquitous.

• Sequence similarities

  Belongs to the ELO family.

• Post-translational
  modifications

  N-Glycosylated.

• Cellular localization

  Endoplasmic reticulum membrane.

• Target information above from: UniProt accession Q9H5J4 The UniProt Consortium
  The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) in 2010
  Nucleic Acids Res. 38:D142-D148 (2010) .

  Information by UniProt