Protein Name fatty acid desaturase 2
Organism Rattus norvegicus
Gene ID 83512
Gene Symbol

Fads2

UniProt Q9Z122 (FADS2_RAT)
Relationships Total Number of functionally related compound(s) : 137
Total Number of Articles : 144
Description

fatty acid desaturase 2

Gene Summary

Predicted to enable stearoyl-CoA 9-desaturase activity. Predicted to be involved in lipid metabolic process. Predicted to be located in endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Orthologous to human FADS2 (fatty acid desaturase 2). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]

synonyms
  • acyl-CoA 6-desaturase
  • D6D
  • delta(6) desaturase
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Properties