Emerging role of 12/15-Lipoxygenase (ALOX15) in human pathologies

NK Singh, GN Rao - Progress in lipid research, 2019 - Elsevier
lipoxygenase (12/15-LOX) is an enzyme, which oxidizes polyunsaturated fatty acids,
particularly omega-6 and-3 fatty acids, to generate a number of bioactive lipid metabolites. A …

Structural and functional biology of arachidonic acid 15-lipoxygenase-1 (ALOX15)

I Ivanov, H Kuhn, D Heydeck - Gene, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Redox homeostasis: The Golden Mean of healthy living

F Ursini, M Maiorino, HJ Forman - Redox biology, 2016 - Elsevier
The notion that electrophiles serve as messengers in cell signaling is now widely accepted.
Nonetheless, major issues restrain acceptance of redox homeostasis and redox signaling as …

The evolutionary hypothesis of reaction specificity of mammalian ALOX15 orthologs

H Kuhn, L Humeniuk, N Kozlov, S Roigas, S Adel… - Progress in lipid …, 2018 - Elsevier
The reaction specificity of lipoxygenases (ALOX) impacts the biological activity of these
enzymes and also constitutes the decisive parameter for enzyme classification. ALOX15 …

Evolutionary alteration of ALOX15 specificity optimizes the biosynthesis of antiinflammatory and proresolving lipoxins

S Adel, F Karst, À González-Lafont… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
ALOX15 (12/15-lipoxygenase) orthologs have been implicated in maturational degradation
of intracellular organelles and in the biosynthesis of antiinflammatory and proresolving …

A review on the relationship between Arachidonic acid 15-Lipoxygenase (ALOX15) and diabetes mellitus

K He, X Zhou, H Du, J Zhao, R Deng, J Wang - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Abstract Arachidonic acid 15-lipoxygenase (ALOX15), as one of the lipoxygenase family, is
mainly responsible for catalyzing the oxidation of various fatty acids to produce a variety of …

The reaction specificity of mammalian ALOX15 orthologs is changed during late primate evolution and these alterations might offer evolutionary advantages for …

D Heydeck, F Reisch, M Schäfer… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Arachidonic acid lipoxygenases (ALOXs) have been implicated in the immune response of
mammals. The reaction specificity of these enzymes is decisive for their biological functions …

Functional characterization of novel ALOX15 orthologs representing key steps in mammalian evolution supports the Evolutionary Hypothesis of reaction specificity

N Kozlov, L Humeniuk, C Ufer, I Ivanov… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2019 - Elsevier
Arachidonic acid lipoxygenases (ALOXs) are lipid-metabolizing enzymes that have been
implicated in cell differentiation, but also in the pathogenesis of inflammatory …

Female mice carrying a defective Alox15 gene are protected from experimental colitis via sustained maintenance of the intestinal epithelial barrier function

S Kroschwald, CY Chiu, D Heydeck, N Rohwer… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2018 - Elsevier
Lipoxygenases (ALOXs) are involved in the regulation of cellular redox homeostasis. They
also have been implicated in the biosynthesis of pro-and anti-inflammatory lipid mediators …

Functional characterization of a novel arachidonic acid 12S‐lipoxygenase in the halotolerant bacterium Myxococcus fulvus exhibiting complex social living patterns

K Goloshchapova, S Stehling, D Heydeck… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Lipoxygenases are lipid peroxidizing enzymes, which frequently occur in higher plants and
mammals. These enzymes are also expressed in lower multicellular organisms but here …