... in the olfactory system, in the most dorso-medialarea (zone 1) of the OE. It is known that acyl-CoAsynthetase is involved in the initial step of fatty acidmetabolism, i.e., the reaction of ... acetyl-CoA synthetase(AceCS) family was much less (20–30%). These observa-tions indicate that the O-MACS protein is a novel member of the acyl-CoA synthetase family, belonging to the subtree of the MACS ... 2003Using the mouse genome database, we then analyzed the genomic organization of the murine o-macs gene. The mouse o-macs is located in the 7F1 region of chromosome 7and is composed of 14 exons...