The elo-4 gene encodes a paralog of elo-1 and elo-2, each of which encodes a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) elongase; its function in vivo is unknown.
Predicted to enable fatty acid elongase activity. Predicted to be involved in fatty acid biosynthetic process and sphingolipid biosynthetic process. Predicted to be located in endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Is an ortholog of human ELOVL3 (ELOVL fatty acid elongase 3) and ELOVL6 (ELOVL fatty acid elongase 6).
elo-4 was previously incorrectly connected to F11E6.5 [021023 ck1]
Map position created from combination of previous interpolated map position (based on known location of sequence) and allele information. Therefore this is not a genetic map position based on recombination frequencies or genetic experiments. This was done on advice of the CGC.