TISSUES

Tissue expression database

FAR2 tissues

FAR2 [ENSP00000443291]

Fatty acyl-CoA reductase 2; 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 . It may play a role in the production of ether lipids/plasmalogens and wax monoesters which synthesis requires fatty alcohols as substrates (By similarity).

Synonyms:  FAR2,  FAR2p,  hFAR2,  A0A024RAW7,  F8VPF2 ...

Linkouts:  STRING  Pharos  UniProt

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