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Phyletic distribution of fatty acid-binding protein genes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Zheng Yadong, Blair David, Bradley Janette E
Abstract excerpt
Fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs) are a family of fatty acid-binding small proteins essential for lipid trafficking, energy storage and gene regulation. Although they have 20 to 70% amino acid sequence identity, these proteins share a conserved tertiary structure comprised of ten beta sheets and two alpha helixes. Availability of the complete genomes of 34 invertebrates, together with transcriptomes and ESTs,...
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