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Facts about Phosphatidylcholine translocator ABCB4.
Translocation of PC creates the biliary phospholipids available for extraction into the canaliculi lumen by bile salt mixed micelles and therefore protects the biliary tree from the detergent action of bile salts (PubMed:7957936, PubMed:8898203, PubMed:9366571, PubMed:17523162, PubMed:23468132, PubMed:24806754, PubMed:24723470, PubMed:24594635, PubMed:21820390). Plays a role in the recruitment of phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and sphingomyelin (SM) molecules to nonraft membranes and to fu rther enrichment of SM and cholesterol in raft membranes in hepatocytes (PubMed:23468132).
Human | |
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Gene Name: | ABCB4 |
Uniprot: | P21439 |
Entrez: | 5244 |
Belongs to: |
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ABC transporter superfamily |
ABC21; ABCB4; ATP-binding cassette sub-family B member 4; ATP-binding cassette, sub-family B (MDR/TAP), member 4; EC 3.6.3; EC 3.6.3.44; GBD1; MDR2; MDR3; MDR3MDR2/3; multidrug resistance protein 3; multiple drug resistance 3; P glycoprotein 3/multiple drug resistance 3; PFIC-3; P-glycoprotein 3; P-glycoprotein-3/multiple drug resistance-3; PGY3; PGY3GBD1
Mass (kDA):
141.523 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 7q21.12 |
Sequence: | 7; NC_000007.14 (87398988..87476722, complement) |
Cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Apical cell membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein. Membrane raft. Cytoplasm. Cytoplasmic vesicle, clathrin-coated vesicle. Localized at the apical canalicular membrane of the epithelial cells lining the lumen of the bile canaliculi and biliary ductules (By similarity). Transported from the Golgi to the apical bile canalicular membrane in a RACK1-dependent manner (PubMed:19674157). Redistributed into pseudocanaliculi formed between cells in a bezafibrate- or PPARA-dependent manner (PubMed:15258199). Localized preferentially in lipid nonraft domains of
PMID: 2906314 by van der Bliek A.M., et al. Sequence of mdr3 cDNA encoding a human P-glycoprotein.
PMID: 7893760 by Smit J.J., et al. Characterization of the promoter region of the human MDR3 P- glycoprotein gene.