Alternative transcripts of fatty acid desaturase (FADS) genes

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Volumn 82, Issue 4-6, 2010, Pages 281-285

  Thomas Brenna, J ^a   Kothapalli, Kumar S D ^a   Jung Park, Woo ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; FATTY ACID DESATURASE 2; FATTY ACID DESATURASE 3; OXYGENASE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EXON; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHICKENS; DOGS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HORSES; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAPIO; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

MAMMALIA; PAPIO;

EID: 77951978744     PISSN: 09523278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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