FAD

There are multiple definitions:

  1. flavin adenine dinucleotide(English)

  2. familial Alzheimer's disease(English)

  3. failure assessment diagram(English)

  4. fetal absorbed dose(English)

  5. fatty acid desaturase(English)

    • plays a key role in the biosynthesis of PUFA, and the regulatory aspect in this process. The paucity of biochemical analysis of these systems reflects the difficulties these enzymes present for traditional purification/characterization. They are hydrophobic/membrane-bound proteins comprising at least three separate functions to yield the final desaturase activity (cytochrome b5 reductase, cytochrome b5 the terminal desaturase, and even perhaps malic enzyme). Furthermore, the substrates for these enzymes are either acyl-CoA or acyl residues attached to phospholipids. As the 14C substrates required to assay these enzymes are either very expensive or simply not available commercially, many attempts to assay desaturases use labeled free fatty acids and rely on activating activities in the extracts to convert these into the required substrates for the desaturases
    • PUFA
    • Enzymes, Biochemistry
    • https://doi.org…2164(02)51000-5
  6. Family Assessment Device(English)