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

• DOI: 10.1194/jlr.e400002-jlr200
• Publication Date: 2004-08-02T00:12:29Z
• Authors: 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
• Keywords: Gene nomenclature

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