SLC27A6 (solute carrier family 27 member 6)
| Gene | |
|
Entrez ID
Entrez Gene ID - the GENE ID in NCBI Gene database.
|
28965 |
|
Gene name
Gene Name - the full gene name approved by the HGNC.
|
Solute carrier family 27 member 6 |
|
Gene symbol
Gene Symbol - the official gene symbol approved by the HGNC.
|
SLC27A6 |
|
Synonyms (NCBI Gene)
Gene synonyms aliases
|
ACSVL2, FACVL2, FATP6, VLCS-H1 |
|
Chromosome
Chromosome number
|
5 |
|
Chromosome location
Chromosomal Location - indicates the cytogenetic location of the gene or region on the chromosome.
|
5q23.3 |
|
Summary
Summary of gene provided in NCBI Entrez Gene.
|
This gene encodes a member of the fatty acid transport protein family (FATP). FATPs are involved in the uptake of long-chain fatty acids and have unique expression patterns. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding the same protein have been fou |
|
miRNA
miRNA information provided by mirtarbase database.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Gene ontology (GO)
Gene ontology information of associated ontologies with gene provided by GO database.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Other IDs
Other ids provides unique ids of gene in databases such as OMIM, HGNC, ENSEMBLE.
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
| Protein | ||||||||||||||||
| UniProt ID | Q9Y2P4 | |||||||||||||||
| Protein name | Long-chain fatty acid transport protein 6 (FATP-6) (Fatty acid transport protein 6) (Arachidonate--CoA ligase) (EC 6.2.1.15) (Fatty-acid-coenzyme A ligase, very long-chain 2) (Long-chain-fatty-acid--CoA ligase) (EC 6.2.1.3) (Solute carrier family 27 membe | |||||||||||||||
| Protein function | Mediates the import of long-chain fatty acids (LCFA) into the cell by facilitating their transport at the plasma membrane (PubMed:12556534). Also functions as an acyl-CoA ligase catalyzing the ATP-dependent formation of fatty acyl-CoA using LCFA | |||||||||||||||
| Family and domains |
Pfam
|
|||||||||||||||
| Tissue specificity | TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Strongly expressed in heart and localizes to cardiac myocytes (PubMed:12556534). Expressed at moderate levels in placenta, testis, and adrenal glands. Expressed at very low levels in kidney, bladder and uterus. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:1255 | |||||||||||||||
| Sequence | ||||||||||||||||
| Sequence length | 619 | |||||||||||||||
| Interactions | View interactions | |||||||||||||||
|
Pathways
Pathway information has different metabolic/signaling pathways associated with genes.
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
Associated diseases
Disease associations categorized as Causal (pathogenic variants), Unknown (uncertain genetic evidence), or Text Mining (literature-based associations)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||