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FAR8 fatty acid reductase 8 [ Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) ]

Gene ID: 823581, updated on 18-Sep-2024

Summary

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Official Symbol
FAR8
Official Full Name
fatty acid reductase 8
Primary source
TAIR:AT3G44560
Locus tag
AT3G44560
See related
Araport:AT3G44560
Gene type
protein coding
RefSeq status
REVIEWED
Organism
Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype: Columbia)
Lineage
Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; malvids; Brassicales; Brassicaceae; Camelineae; Arabidopsis
Also known as
fatty acid reductase 8
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Genomic context

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See FAR8 in Genome Data Viewer
Location:
chromosome: 3
Exon count:
9
Sequence:
Chromosome: 3; NC_003074.8 (16151123..16154607)

Chromosome 3 - NC_003074.8Genomic Context describing neighboring genes Neighboring gene fatty acid reductase 5 Neighboring gene uncharacterized protein Neighboring gene retrotransposon ORF-1 protein Neighboring gene uncharacterized protein

Genomic regions, transcripts, and products

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Genomic Sequence:
NC_003074.8

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Bibliography

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Related articles in PubMed

  1. Identification of amino acids conferring chain length substrate specificities on fatty alcohol-forming reductases FAR5 and FAR8 from Arabidopsis thaliana. Chacón MG, et al. J Biol Chem, 2013 Oct 18. PMID 24005667, Free PMC Article
  2. Functional expression of five Arabidopsis fatty acyl-CoA reductase genes in Escherichia coli. Doan TT, et al. J Plant Physiol, 2009 May 15. PMID 19062129
  3. Sequence and analysis of chromosome 3 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Salanoubat M, et al. Nature, 2000 Dec 14. PMID 11130713

GeneRIFs: Gene References Into Functions

What's a GeneRIF?
  1. Identification of amino acids conferring chain length substrate specificities on fatty alcohol-forming reductases FAR5 and FAR8 from Arabidopsis thaliana.
    Title: Identification of amino acids conferring chain length substrate specificities on fatty alcohol-forming reductases FAR5 and FAR8 from Arabidopsis thaliana.
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Pathways from PubChem

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General gene information

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NM_114324.3

Gene Ontology Provided by TAIR

Function Evidence Code Pubs
enables alcohol-forming long-chain fatty acyl-CoA reductase activity IEA
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
more info
  
enables alcohol-forming very long-chain fatty acyl-CoA reductase activity IDA
Inferred from Direct Assay
more info
 PubMed 
enables alcohol-forming very long-chain fatty acyl-CoA reductase activity IEA
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
more info
  
Component Evidence Code Pubs
located_in chloroplast ISM
Inferred from Sequence Model
more info
  

General protein information

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Preferred Names
fatty acid reductase 8
NP_190042.2
  • fatty acid reductase 8 (FAR8); FUNCTIONS IN: oxidoreductase activity, acting on the CH-CH group of donors, fatty-acyl-CoA reductase (alcohol-forming) activity; INVOLVED IN: microsporogenesis, metabolic process; LOCATED IN: endomembrane system; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Male sterility (InterPro:IPR004262), NAD(P)-binding domain (InterPro:IPR016040), Male sterility, NAD-binding (InterPro:IPR013120); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: fatty acid reductase 5 (TAIR:AT3G44550.1); Has 2540 Blast hits to 2507 proteins in 491 species: Archae - 4; Bacteria - 770; Metazoa - 1003; Fungi - 248; Plants - 286; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 229 (source: NCBI BLink).

NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq)

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Genome Annotation

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Reference assembly

Genomic

  1. NC_003074.8 Reference assembly

    Range
    16151123..16154607
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mRNA and Protein(s)

  1. NM_001339157.1 → NP_001327123.1  fatty acid reductase 8 [Arabidopsis thaliana]

    Status: REVIEWED

    UniProtKB/TrEMBL
    A0A1I9LRC1, A0A654FCM6

  2. NM_001339158.1 → NP_001327122.1  fatty acid reductase 8 [Arabidopsis thaliana]

    Status: REVIEWED

    UniProtKB/TrEMBL
    A0A1I9LRC0, A0A654FCM6

  3. NM_114324.3 → NP_190042.2  fatty acid reductase 8 [Arabidopsis thaliana]

    See identical proteins and their annotated locations for NP_190042.2

    Status: REVIEWED

    UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
    A0MF04, Q1PEI6, Q9LXN1
    UniProtKB/TrEMBL
    A0A654FCM6
    Conserved Domains (3) summary
    cd05236
    Location:12 → 362
    FAR-N_SDR_e; fatty acyl CoA reductases (FARs), extended (e) SDRs
    PLN02996
    Location:1 → 495
    PLN02996; fatty acyl-CoA reductase
    pfam03015
    Location:394 → 495
    Sterile; Male sterility protein
Nucleotide Protein
Heading Accession and Version
Protein Accession Links
GenPept Link UniProtKB Link
Q1PEI6.1

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