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Facts about Retinaldehyde-binding protein 1.
The cycling of retinoids between photoreceptor and adjacent pigment epithelium cells is known as the'visual cycle'. .
Human | |
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Gene Name: | RLBP1 |
Uniprot: | P12271 |
Entrez: | 6017 |
Belongs to: |
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No superfamily |
Cellular retinaldehyde-binding protein; cellular retinaldehyde-binding protein-1; CRALBPretinaldehyde-binding protein 1; MGC3663; retinaldehyde binding protein 1
Mass (kDA):
36.474 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 15q26.1 |
Sequence: | 15; NC_000015.10 (89209869..89223179, complement) |
Retina and pineal gland. Not present in photoreceptor cells but is expressed abundantly in the adjacent retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and in the Mueller glial cells of the retina.
Cytoplasm.
PMID: 3198595 by Crabb J.W., et al. Cloning of the cDNAs encoding the cellular retinaldehyde-binding protein from bovine and human retina and comparison of the protein structures.
PMID: 7929238 by Intres R., et al. Molecular cloning and structural analysis of the human gene encoding cellular retinaldehyde-binding protein.