The key roles of elongases and desaturases in mammalian fatty acid metabolism: Insights from transgenic mice

Progress in Lipid Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 186-199

  Guillou, Hervé ^a   Zadravec, Damir ^b   Martin, Pascal G P ^a   Jacobsson, Anders ^b  

^a TOXALIM RESEARCH CENTRE IN FOOD TOXICOLOGY   (France)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Desaturase; Elongase; Knockout mice; PUFA; VLCFA

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE 1; ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE 2; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; ELONGATION OF VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID 3 PROTEIN; ELONGATION OF VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID 4 PROTEIN; ELONGATION OF VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID 5 PROTEIN; ELONGATION OF VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID 6 PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; NONESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; FATTY ACID CHAIN ELONGATION; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS;

MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 76749132709     PISSN: 01637827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plipres.2009.12.002     Document Type: Review

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