InnateDB: Systems Biology of the Innate Immune Response

Homo sapiens Protein: FADS2

Summary

InnateDB Protein

IDBP-485531.3

Last Modified

2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]

Gene Symbol

FADS2

Protein Name

fatty acid desaturase 2

Synonyms

D6D; DES6; FADSD6; LLCDL2; SLL0262; TU13;

Species

Homo sapiens

Ensembl Protein

ENSP00000429500

InnateDB Gene

IDBG-50591 (FADS2)

Protein Structure

UniProt Annotation

Function

Subcellular Localization

Disease Associations

Tissue Specificity

Comments

Interactions

Number of Interactions

This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 4 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 2 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.

Experimentally validated
Total	4 [view]
Protein-Protein	4 [view]
Protein-DNA	0
Protein-RNA	0
DNA-DNA	0
RNA-RNA	0
DNA-RNA	0

Predicted by orthology
Total	2 [view]

Gene Ontology

Molecular Function

Accession	GO Term
GO:0005506	iron ion binding
GO:0016717	oxidoreductase activity, acting on paired donors, with oxidation of a pair of donors resulting in the reduction of molecular oxygen to two molecules of water
GO:0020037	heme binding

Biological Process

GO:0006629	lipid metabolic process
GO:0006633	fatty acid biosynthetic process
GO:0006636	unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process
GO:0033559	unsaturated fatty acid metabolic process
GO:0036109	alpha-linolenic acid metabolic process
GO:0043651	linoleic acid metabolic process
GO:0044281	small molecule metabolic process
GO:0055114	oxidation-reduction process