FABP6

This gene encodes the ileal fatty acid binding protein. Fatty acid binding proteins are a family of small, highly conserved, cytoplasmic proteins that bind long-chain fatty acids and other hydrophobic ligands. FABP6 and FABP1 (the liver fatty acid binding protein) are also able to bind bile acids. It is thought that FABPs roles include fatty acid uptake, transport, and metabolism. Transcript variants generated by alternate transcription promoters and/or alternate splicing have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Description

Fatty acid binding protein 6

Tissue specificity

Tissue enriched (intestine)

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Metabolic proteins
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

5 (160187367 - 160238735)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000170231  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Fabp6: ENSMUSG00000020405

UniProt

P51161

neXtProt

NX_P51161

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure