金山科研平台，产品价格货期咨询微信：jinshanbio Molecule Information: Fatty Acid Synthase/FASN Aliases: FASN; OA-519; SDR27X1 Entrez Gene IDs: 2194 (Human); 14104 (Mouse) Background: Fatty Acid Synthase Fatty Acid Synthase; also FAS or FASN) is a cytosolic member of the short chain dehydrogenase/reductase family 27X. It is found as an antiparallel homodimer in neurons, skeletal muscle, adipocytes and hepatocytes. FASN catalyzes the formation of palmitic acid from acetylCoA or malonylCoA, and also likely mediates the transfer of fatty acids to peptides.