Essential role of ELOVL4 protein in very long chain fatty acid synthesis and retinal function

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 11469-11480

  Harkewicz, Richard ^a   Du, Hongjun ^b,c,d   Tong, Zongzhong ^b   Alkuraya, Hisham ^b   Bedell, Matthew ^b   Sun, Woong ^b   Wang, Xiaolei ^b,e   Hsu, Yuan Hao ^a   Esteve Rudd, Julian ^f   Hughes, Guy ^b   Su, Zhiguang ^c   Zhang, Ming ^c   Lopes, Vanda S ^f   Molday, Robert S ^g   Williams, David S ^f   Dennis, Edward A ^a   Zhang, Kang ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS; PROTEINS; VISION;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANTS; FATTY ACID COMPOSITION; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPIDS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRIES; IMMUNOFLUORESCENT STAINING; MACULAR DEGENERATION; VERY LONG-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS; VERY LONG-CHAIN POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS;

ALDEHYDES;

ELONGATION OF VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID 4; EYE PROTEIN; FAT DROPLET; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIPID COMPOSITION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA CONE;

MUS;

EID: 84859494463     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.256073     Document Type: Article

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