Encodes an unusual palmitate desaturase that is highly substrate specific. It introduces a delta-3 trans double bond at palmitate at the sn-2 position of phosphatidylglycerol.
Computational Description
fatty acid desaturase A (FADA); FUNCTIONS IN: Delta 3-trans hexadecenoic acid phosphatidylglycerol desaturase activity; INVOLVED IN: response to karrikin, phosphatidylglycerol metabolic process, unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process; LOCATED IN: chloroplast; EXPRESSED IN: 20 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Kua-ubiquitin conjugating enzyme hybrid, localisation (InterPro:IPR019547); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: Kua-ubiquitin conjugating enzyme hybrid localisation domain (TAIR:AT1G62190.1); Has 1807 Blast hits to 1807 proteins in 277 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 0; Metazoa - 736; Fungi - 347; Plants - 385; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 339 (source: NCBI BLink).