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Any enzyme that catalyzes the elongation of an aliphatic chain, but especially one that elongates a fatty acid
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ELOVL4 — Elongation of very long chain fatty acids (FEN1/Elo2, SUR4/Elo3, yeast) like 4, also known as ELOVL4, is a human gene.cite web | title = Entrez Gene: ELOVL4 elongation of very long chain fatty acids (FEN1/Elo2, SUR4/Elo3, yeast) like 4| url =… … Wikipedia
