ELOVL5

ELOVL fatty acid elongase 5
Identifiers
Symbols	ELOVL5; HELO1; dJ483K16.1
External IDs	OMIM: 611805 MGI: 1916051 HomoloGene: 41449 GeneCards: ELOVL5 Gene
Gene Ontology Molecular function • protein binding • fatty acid elongase activity • fatty acid elongase activity • transferase activity • transferase activity, transferring acyl groups other than amino-acyl groups Cellular component • endoplasmic reticulum • endoplasmic reticulum membrane • membrane • integral to membrane Biological process • triglyceride biosynthetic process • fatty acid elongation, monounsaturated fatty acid • fatty acid elongation, polyunsaturated fatty acid • long-chain fatty-acyl-CoA biosynthetic process • very long-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process • cellular lipid metabolic process Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	60481	68801
Ensembl	ENSG00000012660	ENSMUSG00000032349
UniProt	Q9NYP7	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_021814	NM_134255.3
RefSeq (protein)	NP_068586	NP_599016.2
Location (UCSC)	Chr 6: 53.13 – 53.21 Mb	Chr 9: 77.77 – 77.83 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Elongation of very long chain fatty acids protein 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ELOVL5 gene.

Further reading

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• Yu W, Andersson B, Worley KC, et al. (1997). "Large-Scale Concatenation cDNA Sequencing". Genome Res. 7 (4): 353–8. doi:10.1101/gr.7.4.353. PMC 139146. PMID 9110174. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=139146. 
• Wiemann S, Weil B, Wellenreuther R, et al. (2001). "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. doi:10.1101/gr.GR1547R. PMC 311072. PMID 11230166. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=311072. 
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "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. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=139241. 
• Mungall AJ, Palmer SA, Sims SK, et al. (2003). "The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 6". Nature 425 (6960): 805–11. doi:10.1038/nature02055. PMID 14574404. 
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039. 
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=528928. 
• Barragan I, Marcos I, Borrego S, Antiñolo G (2006). "Mutation screening of three candidate genes, ELOVL5, SMAP1 and GLULD1 in autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa". Int. J. Mol. Med. 16 (6): 1163–7. PMID 16273301. 
• Otsuki T, Ota T, Nishikawa T, et al. (2007). "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. doi:10.1093/dnares/12.2.117. PMID 16303743.