Phosphatidylinositol transfer protein, alpha

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Phosphatidylinositol transfer protein, alpha
PDB rendering based on 1kcm.
Available structures: 1kcm, 1t27, 1uw5
Identifiers
Symbol(s)	PITPNA; MGC99649; PITPN; VIB1A
External IDs	OMIM: 600174 MGI: 99887 HomoloGene: 55958
Gene ontology Molecular Function: • lipid binding • phosphatidylcholine transmembrane transporter activity • phosphatidylinositol transporter activity Cellular Component: • intracellular Biological Process: • lipid metabolic process • transport • visual perception
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
	Human	Mouse
Entrez	5306	18738
Ensembl	ENSG00000174238	ENSMUSG00000017781
Uniprot	Q00169	Q3TGI6
Refseq	NM_006224 (mRNA) NP_006215 (protein)	NM_008850 (mRNA) NP_032876 (protein)
Location	Chr 17: 1.37 - 1.41 Mb	Chr 11: 75.4 - 75.44 Mb
Pubmed search	[1]	[2]

Phosphatidylinositol transfer protein, alpha, also known as PITPNA, is a human gene.

Phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins are a diverse set of cytosolic phospholipid transfer proteins that are distinguished by their ability to transfer phospholipids between membranes in vitro (Wirtz, 1991).^[1]

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• UMich Orientation of Proteins in Membranes families/superfamily-147