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Homo sapiens Gene: FITM2
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-76450.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol FITM2
Gene Name fat storage-inducing transmembrane protein 2
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000197296
Encoded Proteins
IDBP-236688
fat storage-inducing transmembrane protein 2
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary FIT2 belongs to an evolutionarily conserved family of proteins involved in fat storage (Kadereit et al., 2008 [PubMed 18160536]).[supplied by OMIM, May 2008]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 20:44302838-44311169
Strand Reverse strand
Band q13.12
Transcripts
ENST00000396825 ENSP00000380037
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 1 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 1 [view]
Protein-Protein 1 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0003674 molecular_function
Biological Process
GO:0007010 cytoskeleton organization
GO:0010866 regulation of triglyceride biosynthetic process
GO:0010890 positive regulation of sequestering of triglyceride
GO:0022604 regulation of cell morphogenesis
GO:0034389 lipid particle organization
GO:0035356 cellular triglyceride homeostasis
Cellular Component
GO:0005739 mitochondrion
GO:0005789 endoplasmic reticulum membrane
GO:0030176 integral component of endoplasmic reticulum membrane
Orthologs
Species
Mus musculus
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
ENSMUSG00000048486
View Gene Order
ENSBTAG00000020030
Not yet available
Cross-References
SwissProt Q8N6M3
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 128486
UniGene Hs.612926
RefSeq NM_001080472
HUGO HGNC:16135
OMIM 612029
CCDS CCDS33473
HPRD
IMGT
EMBL AL117382 BC029662 BC130446 BC136640 CH471077
GenPept AAI30447 AAI36641 CAI23111 EAW75929
RNA Seq Atlas 128486

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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