Identification of fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase in the breakdown of phytol to phytanic acid

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-37

  Van Den Brink, Daan M ^a   Van Miert, Joram N I ^a   Dacremont, Georges ^b   Rontani, Jean François ^c   Jansen, Gerbert A ^a   Wanders, Ronald J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

Author keywords

Branched chain fatty acids; Fatty acid oxidation; Fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase; Phytanic acid; Phytenic acid; Phytol; Refsum disease; Sj gren Larsson syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALDEHYDE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; PHYTANIC ACID; PHYTOL;

ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; METABOLISM; MICROSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFSUM DISEASE; SJOEGREN LARSSON SYNDROME;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FATTY ACIDS; FIBROBLASTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHYTANIC ACID; PHYTOL; REFSUM DISEASE; SJOGREN-LARSSON SYNDROME;

EID: 1942521283     PISSN: 10967192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2004.01.019     Document Type: Article

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