fat-7 [Browse genome (BioProject PRJNA13758)] [Search on AGR]
Caenorhabditis elegans Enables stearoyl-CoA 9-desaturase activity. Involved in fatty acid biosynthetic process and post-embryonic development. Acts upstream of or within intracellular oxygen homeostasis and response to hypoxia. Predicted to be located in endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Expressed in intestinal cell. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in autosomal dominant nonsyndromic deafness 79. Is an ortholog of human SCD (stearoyl-CoA desaturase) and SCD5 (stearoyl-CoA desaturase 5).