期刊
JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH
卷 51, 期 7, 页码 1624-1642出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.R005025
关键词
very long-chain saturated fatty acids; retinal lipids; Stargardt Disease
资金
- National Institutes of Health [EY00871, EY04149, EY12190, RR17703]
- Foundation for Fighting Blindness, Research to Prevent Blindness, and Hope for Vision
Compared with other mammalian tissues, retina is highly enriched in PUFA. Long-chain PUFA (LC-PUFA; C18-C24) are essential FAs that are enriched in the retina and are necessary for maintenance of normal retinal development and function. The retina, brain, and sperm also contain very LC-PUFA (VLC-PUFA; >C24). Although VLC-PUFA were discovered more than two decades ago, very little is known about their biosynthesis and functional roles in the retina. This is due mainly to intrinsic difficulties associated with working on these unusually long polyunsaturated hydrocarbon chains and their existence in small amounts. Recent studies on the FA elongase elongation of very long chain fatty acids-4 (ELOVL4) protein, however, suggest that VLC-PUFA probably play some uniquely important roles in the retina as well as the other tissues. Mutations in the ELOVL4 gene are found in patients with autosomal dominant Stargardt disease. Here, we review the recent literature on VLC-PUFA with special emphasis on the elongases responsible for their synthesis. We focus on a novel elongase, ELOVL4, involved in the synthesis of VLC-PUFA, and the importance of these FAs in maintaining the structural and functional integrity of retinal photoreceptors.-Agbaga, M-P., M. N. A. Mandal, and R. E. Anderson. Retinal very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids: new insights from studies on ELOVL4 protein. J. Lipid Res. 2010. 51: 1624- 1642.
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