InterPro domain: IPR026055

General Information

  • Identifier IPR026055
  • Description Fatty acyl-CoA reductase
  • Number of genes 1094
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  • Associated GO terms GO:0080019  

Abstract

This is a fatty acyl-CoA reductase family that can catalyse the reduction of fatty acyl-CoA to fatty alcohols [ 1 , 2 ].


1. Mammalian wax biosynthesis. I. Identification of two fatty acyl-Coenzyme A reductases with different substrate specificities and tissue distributions. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 37789-97
2. CER4 encodes an alcohol-forming fatty acyl-coenzyme A reductase involved in cuticular wax production in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 142, 866-77

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