FADA fatty acid desaturase A [Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress)] - Gene

Summary

Official Symbol: FADA
Official Full Name: fatty acid desaturase A
Primary source: TAIR:AT4G27030
Locus tag: AT4G27030
See related: Araport:AT4G27030
Gene type: protein coding
RefSeq status: REVIEWED
Organism: Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype: Columbia)
Lineage: Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; malvids; Brassicales; Brassicaceae; Camelineae; Arabidopsis
Also known as: F10M23.370; F10M23_370; FAD4; FATTY ACID DESATURASE 4; fatty acid desaturase A
Summary: Encodes an unusual palmitate desaturase that is highly substrate specific. It introduces a delta-3 trans double bond at palmitate at the sn-2 position of phosphatidylglycerol.
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Chromosome 4 - NC_003075.7 Genomic Context describing neighboring genes

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NM_118837.2

Function	Evidence Code	Pubs
enables palmitoyl-[glycerolipid] 3-(E)-desaturase activity	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
enables palmitoyl-[glycerolipid] 3-(E)-desaturase activity	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
enables palmitoyl-[glycerolipid] 3-(E)-desaturase activity	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed

Process	Evidence Code	Pubs
acts_upstream_of_or_within phosphatidylglycerol metabolic process	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed
acts_upstream_of_or_within unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process	IMP Inferred from Mutant Phenotype more info	PubMed

Component	Evidence Code	Pubs
located_in chloroplast	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed
located_in chloroplast	ISM Inferred from Sequence Model more info
located_in chloroplast	NAS Non-traceable Author Statement more info
located_in chloroplast membrane	IDA Inferred from Direct Assay more info	PubMed

NP_194433.1

fatty acid desaturase A (FADA); FUNCTIONS IN: Delta 3-trans hexadecenoic acid phosphatidylglycerol desaturase activity; INVOLVED IN: response to karrikin, phosphatidylglycerol metabolic process, unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process; LOCATED IN: chloroplast; EXPRESSED IN: 20 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Kua-ubiquitin conjugating enzyme hybrid, localisation (InterPro:IPR019547); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: Kua-ubiquitin conjugating enzyme hybrid localisation domain (TAIR:AT1G62190.1); Has 1807 Blast hits to 1807 proteins in 277 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 0; Metazoa - 736; Fungi - 347; Plants - 385; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 339 (source: NCBI BLink).

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