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Designing a Western blot for FABP4? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
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Facts about Fatty acid-binding protein, adipocyte.
Delivers long-chain fatty acids and retinoic acid to their cognate receptors in the nucleus. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | FABP4 |
| Uniprot: | P15090 |
| Entrez: | 2167 |

| Belongs to: |
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| calycin superfamily |

Adipocyte lipid-binding protein; Adipocyte-type fatty acid-binding protein; AFABP; A-FABP; A-FABPAFABP; ALBP; aP2; FABP4; fatty acid binding protein 4, adipocyte; Fatty acid-binding protein 4; fatty acid-binding protein, adipocyte
Mass (kDA):
14.719 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 8q21.13 |
| Sequence: | 8; NC_000008.11 (81478419..81483233, complement) |
Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Depending on the nature of the ligand, a conformation change exposes a nuclear localization motif and the protein is transported into the nucleus. Subject to constitutive nuclear export.




PMID: 2481498 by Baxa C.A., et al. Human adipocyte lipid-binding protein: purification of the protein and cloning of its complementary DNA.
PMID: 15357969 by Lehmann F., et al. Discovery of inhibitors of human adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein, a potential type 2 diabetes target.
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