ELOVL5 explained

Elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ELOVL5 gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

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• Yu W, Andersson B, Worley KC . Large-Scale Concatenation cDNA Sequencing . Genome Res. . 7 . 4 . 353–8 . 1997 . 9110174 . 10.1101/gr.7.4.353. 139146 . etal.
• Wiemann S, Weil B, Wellenreuther R . Toward a Catalog of Human Genes and Proteins: Sequencing and Analysis of 500 Novel Complete Protein Coding Human cDNAs . Genome Res. . 11 . 3 . 422–35 . 2001 . 11230166 . 10.1101/gr.GR1547R . 311072 . etal.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . etal. free .
• Mungall AJ, Palmer SA, Sims SK . The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 6 . Nature . 425 . 6960 . 805–11 . 2003 . 14574404 . 10.1038/nature02055 . 2003Natur.425..805M . etal. free .
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T . Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs . Nat. Genet. . 36 . 1 . 40–5 . 2004 . 14702039 . 10.1038/ng1285 . etal. free .
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA . The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 . etal.
• Barragan I, Marcos I, Borrego S, Antiñolo G . Mutation screening of three candidate genes, ELOVL5, SMAP1 and GLULD1 in autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa . Int. J. Mol. Med. . 16 . 6 . 1163–7 . 2006 . 16273301 . 10.3892/ijmm.16.6.1163.
• Otsuki T, Ota T, Nishikawa T . Signal sequence and keyword trap in silico for selection of full-length human cDNAs encoding secretion or membrane proteins from oligo-capped cDNA libraries . DNA Res. . 12 . 2 . 117–26 . 2007 . 16303743 . 10.1093/dnares/12.2.117 . etal. free .

Notes and References

1. Leonard AE, Bobik EG, Dorado J, Kroeger PE, Chuang LT, Thurmond JM, Parker-Barnes JM, Das T, Huang YS, Mukerji P . Cloning of a human cDNA encoding a novel enzyme involved in the elongation of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids . Biochem J . 350 Pt 3 . Pt 3. 765–70 . Jan 2001 . 10970790 . 1221308 . 10.1042/0264-6021:3500765.
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: ELOVL5 ELOVL family member 5, elongation of long chain fatty acids (FEN1/Elo2, SUR4/Elo3-like, yeast).