Chloroplastic enzyme responsible for the synthesis of 16:3 and 18:3 fatty acids from galactolipids, sulpholipids and phosphatidylglycerol. Uses ferredoxin as electron donor. Gene expression is induced by wounding in shoot and root. The wound-response in shoot is independent of jasmonic acid mediated pathway whereas the root response is mediated by jasmonic acid.
Computational Description
fatty acid desaturase 7 (FAD7); FUNCTIONS IN: omega-3 fatty acid desaturase activity; INVOLVED IN: response to cold, response to wounding, fatty acid biosynthetic process, jasmonic acid mediated signaling pathway; LOCATED IN: plastid membrane, chloroplast, chloroplast envelope; EXPRESSED IN: male gametophyte, guard cell, pollen tube; EXPRESSED DURING: L mature pollen stage, M germinated pollen stage; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Protein of unknown function DUF3474 (InterPro:IPR021863), Fatty acid desaturase, type 1 (InterPro:IPR005804); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: fatty acid desaturase 8 (TAIR:AT5G05580.1); Has 2938 Blast hits to 2935 proteins in 698 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 1234; Metazoa - 17; Fungi - 265; Plants - 926; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 496 (source: NCBI BLink).
