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Homo sapiens Gene: ELOVL2
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-61511.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol ELOVL2
Gene Name ELOVL fatty acid elongase 2
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000197977
Encoded Proteins
IDBP-61513
ELOVL fatty acid elongase 2
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary Currently no Entrez Summary Available. You might want to check the Summary Sections of the Orthologs.
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 6:10980759-11044314
Strand Reverse strand
Band p24.2
Transcripts
ENST00000354666 ENSP00000346693
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 1 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 1 [view]
Protein-Protein 1 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0005515 protein binding
GO:0009922 fatty acid elongase activity
GO:0016747 transferase activity, transferring acyl groups other than amino-acyl groups
Biological Process
GO:0000038 very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process
GO:0006636 unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process
GO:0019432 triglyceride biosynthetic process
GO:0033559 unsaturated fatty acid metabolic process
GO:0034626 fatty acid elongation, polyunsaturated fatty acid
GO:0035338 long-chain fatty-acyl-CoA biosynthetic process
GO:0036109 alpha-linolenic acid metabolic process
GO:0042761 very long-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process
GO:0043651 linoleic acid metabolic process
GO:0044255 cellular lipid metabolic process
GO:0044281 small molecule metabolic process
Cellular Component
GO:0005783 endoplasmic reticulum
GO:0005789 endoplasmic reticulum membrane
GO:0016021 integral component of membrane
Orthologs
Species
Mus musculus
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
ENSMUSG00000021364
View Gene Order
ENSBTAG00000002497
Not yet available
Pathways
NETPATH
REACTOME
REACT_121100
Linoleic acid (LA) metabolism pathway
REACT_121147
alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) metabolism pathway
REACT_380
Synthesis of very long-chain fatty acyl-CoAs pathway
REACT_1319
Fatty Acyl-CoA Biosynthesis pathway
REACT_1190
Triglyceride Biosynthesis pathway
REACT_22279
Fatty acid, triacylglycerol, and ketone body metabolism pathway
REACT_22258
Metabolism of lipids and lipoproteins pathway
REACT_121284
alpha-linolenic (omega3) and linoleic (omega6) acid metabolism pathway
REACT_111217
Metabolism pathway
KEGG
hsa01040
Biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids pathway
hsa00062
Fatty acid elongation pathway
INOH
PID NCI
Cross-References
SwissProt Q9NXB9
TrEMBL A0A024QZV3
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 54898
UniGene Hs.604850 Hs.656436
RefSeq NM_017770
HUGO HGNC:14416
OMIM 611814
CCDS CCDS4518
HPRD
IMGT
EMBL AK000341 AL121955 BC050278 BC060809 CH471087
GenPept AAH50278 AAH60809 BAA91096 CAI22076 EAW55291 EAW55292
RNA Seq Atlas 54898

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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