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

• Published in: Journal of lipid research Vol. 45; no. 10; pp. 1958 - 1961
• Main Authors: Mashek, Douglas G., Bornfeldt, Karin E., Coleman, Rosalind A., Berger, Johannes, Bernlohr, David A., Black, Paul, DiRusso, Concetta C., Farber, Steven A., Guo, Wen, Hashimoto, Naohiro, Khodiyar, Varsha, Kuypers, Frans A., Maltais, Lois J., Nebert, Daniel W., Renieri, Alessandra, Schaffer, Jean E., Stahl, Andreas, Watkins, Paul A., Vasiliou, Vasilis, Yamamoto, Tokuo T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2004; Elsevier
• Subjects: Acyl Coenzyme A; acyl-coenzyme A synthetase; Animals; bubblegum; Coenzyme A Ligases - genetics; coenzyme A synthetase; fatty acid transport protein; fatty acid-coenzyme A ligase; Genes; Humans; lipidosin; long-chain acyl-coenzyme A synthetase; Mice; Multigene Family; scFat2p; Terminology as Topic; very long chain-acyl-CoA synthetase; lipidosin; scFat2p; very long chain-acyl-CoA synthetase; long-chain acyl-coenzyme A synthetase; bubblegum; fatty acid-coenzyme A ligase; acyl-coenzyme A synthetase; coenzyme A synthetase; fatty acid transport protein
• ISSN: 0022-2275; 1539-7262
• DOI: 10.1194/jlr.E400002-JLR200

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.