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- * Acyl-CoA-binding protein signature *
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- Acyl-CoA-binding protein (ACBP) is a small (10 Kd) protein that binds medium-
- and long-chain acyl-CoA esters with very high affinity and may function as an
- intracellular carrier of acyl-CoA esters [1]. ACBP is also known as
- diazepam binding inhibitor (DBI) or endozepine (EP) because of its ability to
- displace diazepam from the benzodiazepine (BZD) recognition site located on
- the GABA type A receptor. It is therefore possible that this protein also acts
- as a neuropeptide to modulate the action of the GABA receptor [2].
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- ACBP is a highly conserved protein of about 90 residues that has been so far
- found in vertebrates, insects and yeast. ACBP is also related to the N-
- terminal section of a probable transmembrane protein of unknown function which
- has been found in mammals.
-
- As a signature pattern we selected the region that corresponds to residue 19
- to 37 in mammalian ACBP.
-
- -Consensus pattern: P-[STA]-x-[DEN]-x-[LIVM](2)-x-[LIVMFY]-Y-[GSTA]-x-[FY]-K-
- Q-A-[STA]-x-G
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
- -Last update: October 1993 / First entry.
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- [ 1] Rose T.M., Schultz E.R., Todaro G.J.
- Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89:11287-11291(1992).
- [ 2] Costa E., Guidotti A.
- Life Sci. 49:325-344(1991).
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