MGKGGNQGEGAAEREVPMPTFSWEEIQKHNLRTDRWLVIDRKVYNITKWSTQHPGGQRVI GHYAGEDATDAFRAFHPDLKFVGKFLKPLLIGELAPEEPSQDHGKNSKIIEDFRALKKTA EDMNLFKTNHVFFLLLLAHIIALESIAWFTVFYFGNGWIPTLITAFVLATSQAQAGWLQH DYGHLSVYRKPKWNHLVHKFVIGHLKGASANWWNHRHFQHHAKPNIFHKDPDVNMLHVFV LGEWQPIEYGKKKLKYLPYNHQHEYFFLIGPPLLIPMYFQYQIIMTMIVHKNWVDLAWAI SYYIRFFVTYIPFYGILGALLFLNFIRFLESHWFVWVTQMNHIVMEIDQEAYRDWFSSQL TATCNVEQSFFNDWFSGHLNFQIEHHLFPTMPRHNLHKIAPLVKSLCAKHGIEYQEKPLL RALLDIIRSLRKSGKLWLDAYLHK
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Protein Length
full length protein
Tag Info
N-terminal 10xHis-tagged
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Involved in the biosynthesis of highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA) from the essential polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) linoleic acid (LA) (18:2n-6) and alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) (18:3n-3) precursors, acting as a fatty acyl-coenzyme A (CoA) desaturase that introduces a cis double bond at carbon 6 of the fatty acyl chain. Catalyzes the first and rate limiting step in this pathway which is the desaturation of LA (18:2n-6) and ALA (18:3n-3) into gamma-linoleate (GLA) (18:3n-6) and stearidonate (18:4n-3), respectively. Subsequently, in the biosynthetic pathway of HUFA n-3 series, it desaturates tetracosapentaenoate (24:5n-3) to tetracosahexaenoate (24:6n-3), which is then converted to docosahexaenoate (DHA)(22:6n-3), an important lipid for nervous system function. It can also desaturate (11E)-octadecenoate (trans-vaccenoate) at carbon 6 generating (6Z,11E)-octadecadienoate. In addition to Delta-6 activity, this enzyme exhibits Delta-8 activity with slight biases toward n-3 fatty acyl-CoA substrates.