Predicted to enable fatty acid elongase activity. Predicted to be involved in fatty acid biosynthetic process and sphingolipid biosynthetic process. Predicted to act upstream of or within fatty acid biosynthetic process and long-chain fatty-acyl-CoA biosynthetic process. Predicted to be located in dendritic tree and neuronal cell body. Predicted to be active in endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in spinocerebellar ataxia type 38. Orthologous to human ELOVL5 (ELOVL fatty acid elongase 5).
XBXT Description
Fatty acyl-CoA elongase/Polyunsaturated fatty acid specific elongation enzyme