SLC27A3 explained

Long-chain fatty acid transport protein 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC27A3 gene.^{[1] [2]}

In melanocytic cells SLC27A3 gene expression may be regulated by MITF.^[3]

See also

• • Solute carrier family

Further reading

• Gregory SG, Barlow KF, McLay KE, etal . The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1 . Nature . 441 . 7091 . 315–21 . 2006 . 16710414 . 10.1038/nature04727 . 2006Natur.441..315G . free .
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, etal . The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 .
• Pei Z, Fraisl P, Berger J, etal . Mouse very long-chain Acyl-CoA synthetase 3/fatty acid transport protein 3 catalyzes fatty acid activation but not fatty acid transport in MA-10 cells . J. Biol. Chem. . 279 . 52 . 54454–62 . 2005 . 15469937 . 10.1074/jbc.M410091200 . free .
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, etal . Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs . Nat. Genet. . 36 . 1 . 40–5 . 2004 . 14702039 . 10.1038/ng1285 . free .
• Clark HF, Gurney AL, Abaya E, etal . The Secreted Protein Discovery Initiative (SPDI), a Large-Scale Effort to Identify Novel Human Secreted and Transmembrane Proteins: A Bioinformatics Assessment . Genome Res. . 13 . 10 . 2265–70 . 2003 . 12975309 . 10.1101/gr.1293003 . 403697 .
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, etal . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . free .

Notes and References

1. Hirsch D, Stahl A, Lodish HF . A family of fatty acid transporters conserved from mycobacterium to man . Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 95 . 15 . 8625–9 . Aug 1998 . 9671728 . 21126 . 10.1073/pnas.95.15.8625 . 1998PNAS...95.8625H . free .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: SLC27A3 solute carrier family 27 (fatty acid transporter), member 3.
3. Hoek KS, Schlegel NC, Eichhoff OM, etal . Novel MITF targets identified using a two-step DNA microarray strategy . Pigment Cell Melanoma Res. . 21 . 6 . 665–76 . 2008 . 19067971 . 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2008.00505.x . free .