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Homo sapiens Protein: PLIN4
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-19041.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol PLIN4
Protein Name perilipin 4
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Protein ENSP00000301286
InnateDB Gene IDBG-19039 (PLIN4)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function May play a role in triacylglycerol packaging into adipocytes. May function as a coat protein involved in the biogenesis of lipid droplets (By similarity). {ECO:0000250}.
Subcellular Localization Cell membrane {ECO:0000250}. Cytoplasm {ECO:0000250}. Lipid droplet {ECO:0000250}. Note=Nascent lipid droplet surface-associated; association with lipid droplets is triacylglycerol synthesis-dependent. {ECO:0000250}.
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 2 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 1 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Experimentally validated
Total 2 [view]
Protein-Protein 2 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Predicted by orthology
Total 1 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
Biological Process
Cellular Component
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
GO:0005811 lipid particle
GO:0005886 plasma membrane
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR004279 Perilipin
IPR020683 Ankyrin repeat-containing domain
PFAM PF03036
PF11929
PF12796
PRINTS
PIRSF PIRSF036881
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt Q96Q06
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-Q96Q06
TrEMBL B4DHR7
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 729359
UniGene Hs.591387
RefSeq NP_001073869
HUGO HGNC:29393
OMIM 613247
CCDS CCDS45927
HPRD
IMGT
EMBL AB067468 AC011498 AK295236
GenPept BAB67774 BAG58229

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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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