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Revised nomenclature for the mammalian long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase gene family.

Journal of lipid research (2004-08-05)
Douglas G Mashek, Karin E Bornfeldt, Rosalind A Coleman, Johannes Berger, David A Bernlohr, Paul Black, Concetta C DiRusso, Steven A Farber, Wen Guo, Naohiro Hashimoto, Varsha Khodiyar, Frans A Kuypers, Lois J Maltais, Daniel W Nebert, Alessandra Renieri, Jean E Schaffer, Andreas Stahl, Paul A Watkins, Vasilis Vasiliou, Tokuo T Yamamoto
PMID15292367
ABSTRACT

By consensus, the acyl-CoA synthetase (ACS) community, with the advice of the human and mouse genome nomenclature committees, has revised the nomenclature for the mammalian long-chain acyl-CoA synthetases. ACS is the family root name, and the human and mouse genes for the long-chain ACSs are termed ACSL1,3-6 and Acsl1,3-6, respectively. Splice variants of ACSL3, -4, -5, and -6 are cataloged. Suggestions for naming other family members and for the nonmammalian acyl-CoA synthetases are made.