Description
Product Characteristics: The kit is a sandwich enzyme immunoassay for in vitro quantitative measurement of FABP5 in human serum, plasma, tissue homogenates, cell lysates, cell culture supernates.
Target Information: This gene encodes the fatty acid binding protein found in epidermal cells, and was first identified as being upregulated in psoriasis tissue. Fatty acid binding proteins are a family of small, highly conserved, cytoplasmic proteins that bind long-chain fatty acids and other hydrophobic ligands. FABPs may play roles in fatty acid uptake, transport, and metabolism. Polymorphisms in this gene are associated with type 2 diabetes. The human genome contains many pseudogenes similar to this locus.[provided by RefSeq, Feb 2011]