FEATURES

FAMILY

DESCRIPTION

Also known as FACR2_HUMAN, FAR2, MLSTD1. Catalyzes the reduction of saturated but not unsaturated C16 or C18 fatty acyl-CoA to fatty alcohols. A lower activity can be observed with shorter fatty acyl-CoA substrates (PubMed:15220348). It may play a role in the production of ether lipids/plasmalogens and wax monoesters which synthesis requires fatty alcohols as substrates (By similarity).

EXTERNAL LINKS

uniprot
enzyme classification
PhosphoSitePlus

FAR2

Fatty acyl-CoA reductase 2

FAR2

Molecular Synopsis