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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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    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
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    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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