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SUBMITTER: Ivanov I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6728142 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ivanov Igor I Kuhn Hartmut H Heydeck Dagmar D
Gene 20150726 1
Lipoxygenases (LOX) form a family of lipid peroxidizing enzymes, which have been implicated in a number of physiological processes and in the pathogenesis of inflammatory, hyperproliferative and neurodegenerative diseases. They occur in two of the three domains of terrestrial life (bacteria, eucarya) and the human genome involves six functional LOX genes, which encode for six different LOX isoforms. One of these isoforms is ALOX15, which has first been described in rabbits in 1974 as enzyme capa ...[more]