Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.5.0)
Enables alcohol-forming very long-chain fatty acyl-CoA reductase activity. Predicted to be involved in long-chain fatty-acyl-CoA metabolic process. Predicted to act upstream of or within wax biosynthetic process. Located in peroxisome. Is expressed in alveolar sulcus; anterior naris; brain; ovary; and skin. Used to study alopecia and dry eye syndrome. Orthologous to human FAR2 (fatty acyl-CoA reductase 2).
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