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Fatty Acid Desaturases

"Fatty Acid Desaturases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A family of enzymes that catalyze the stereoselective, regioselective, or chemoselective syn-dehydrogenation reactions. They function by a mechanism that is linked directly to reduction of molecular OXYGEN.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fatty Acid Desaturases" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Fatty Acid Desaturases" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 59 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2001
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.